estigma
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,170
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
estigma is aPortuguesenoun. It means: área receptiva do pistilo das flores, onde o grão de pólen inicia a germinação do tubo polínico Pronounced /iʃ.ˈtiɡ.mɐ/. Often confused with estima and estimar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estigma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.ˈtiɡ.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for estigma is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.ˈtiɡ.mɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #21,170 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for estigma, with forms such as "esitgma", "esstigma", and "estgima". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "estima", "estimar", "enigma", and more, 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 estigma, spelled E-S-T-I-G-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1área receptiva do pistilo das flores, onde o grão de pólen inicia a germinação do tubo polínico
- 2cada um dos cinco sinais que aparecem no corpo, nos mesmos pontos onde supostamente teria ocorrido a crucificação de Jesus Cristo, isto é, pés, punhos e tórax
- 3desdouro, afronta, má fama
- 4lesão orgânica que indica uma enfermidade constitucional e hereditária
- 5cada um dos pequenos orifícios no tegumento dos insetos, aracnídeos e miriápodes, pelos quais entra o ar em seus sistemas respiratórios
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esitgma,esstigma,estgima,estigam,estiggma,estigmma,estimga,esttigma,etsigma,setigma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "estigma"
Frequency rank: #21,170 in Portuguese
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