esôfago
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,596
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
esôfago is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conduto musculomembranoso que liga a faringe ao estômago [No homem, divide-se em três porções (cervical, torácica e abdominal) e é constituído por três túnicas (muscular, submucosa e mucosa), ating... Often confused with estrago and estômago.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esôfago |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for esôfago is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #32,596 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 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 esôfago, with forms such as "esfôago", "essôfago", and "esôafgo". 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, "estrago", "estômago", 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 esôfago, spelled E-S-Ô-F-A-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conduto musculomembranoso que liga a faringe ao estômago [No homem, divide-se em três porções (cervical, torácica e abdominal) e é constituído por três túnicas (muscular, submucosa e mucosa), atingindo, no adulto, 25 cm de comprimento e 2,5 cm de diâmetro]
- 2nos invertebrados, porção estreita do canal alimentar imediatamente posterior à faringe
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esfôago,essôfago,esôafgo,esôfaggo,esôfaog,esôffago,esôfgao,eôsfago,seôfago
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "esôfago"
Frequency rank: #32,596 in Portuguese
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