divulgar

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for divulgar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /di.vuɫ.ˈɡaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,674 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for divulgar, with forms such as "ddivulgar", "diuvlgar", and "divlugar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 divulgar, spelled D-I-V-U-L-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.