distrofia

noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#57,271

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

distrofia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: alteração patológica do desenvolvimento ou da nutrição de tecidos ou órgãos

Key facts for distrofia
PropertyValue
Headworddistrofia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#57,271
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of distrofia in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for distrofia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #57,271 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for distrofia in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is distrofia, spelled D-I-S-T-R-O-F-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    alteração patológica do desenvolvimento ou da nutrição de tecidos ou órgãos
  2. 2
    grupo de doenças hereditárias que causam fraqueza e degeneração progressiva dos músculos, como a distrofia muscular de Duchenne e de Becker
  3. 3
    acúmulo de matéria orgânica em ambientes aquáticos como brejos e pântanos

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Frequency rank: #57,271 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "distrofia"?
"distrofia" is spelled D-I-S-T-R-O-F-I-A.
What does "distrofia" mean?
As a noun, "distrofia" means: alteração patológica do desenvolvimento ou da nutrição de tecidos ou órgãos
What language does "distrofia" come from?
"distrofia" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.