egoísmo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,319
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
egoísmo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: hábito ou atitude de se colocar os interesses, opiniões, desejos, necessidades próprios em primeiro lugar, em detrimento do ambiente e das demais pessoas Pronounced /i.ˈɡwiʒ.mu/. Often confused with egoísta and erotismo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | egoísmo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /i.ˈɡwiʒ.mu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for egoísmo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.ˈɡwiʒ.mu/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,319 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for egoísmo, with forms such as "eggoísmo", "egosímo", and "egoímso". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "egoísta", "erotismo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 egoísmo, spelled E-G-O-Í-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1hábito ou atitude de se colocar os interesses, opiniões, desejos, necessidades próprios em primeiro lugar, em detrimento do ambiente e das demais pessoas
- 2na ética kantiana, submissão do dever ao interesse particular, em detrimento da obediência à lei moral
- 3na ética nietzscheana, sentimento típico de homem nobre e incomum de ver a vida exclusivamente sob o ângulo dos seus próprios interesses
- 4atitude ética ou social que parte da suposição que toda ação ou pensamento é a defesa dos próprios interesses
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eggoísmo,egosímo,egoímso,egoísmmo,egoísom,egoíssmo,egíosmo,eogísmo,geoísmo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "egoísmo"
Frequency rank: #15,319 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Portuguese index: