espátula

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for espátula is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.ˈpa.tu.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #45,838 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "espécie de faca de madeira, marfim ou metal que serve para abrir livros, espalmar substâncias ou estender substâncias moles".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for espátula, with forms such as "epsátula", "esppátula", and "esptáula". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "estátua", "estatura", 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 espátula, spelled E-S-P-Á-T-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.