fetichismo

//fɛ.ti.ˈʃiʒ.mu// noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#77,153

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fetichismo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: culto de objetos que se supõe representarem entidades espirituais e possuírem poderes de magia Pronounced /fɛ.ti.ˈʃiʒ.mu/.

Key facts for fetichismo
PropertyValue
Headwordfetichismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/fɛ.ti.ˈʃiʒ.mu/
Letters10
Frequency rank#77,153
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fetichismo in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for fetichismo is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɛ.ti.ˈʃiʒ.mu/. Corpus data places it at rank #77,153 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.

No misspelling variants are generated for fetichismo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 fetichismo, spelled F-E-T-I-C-H-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    culto de objetos que se supõe representarem entidades espirituais e possuírem poderes de magia
  2. 2
    admiração exagerada, irrestrita, incondicional por uma pessoa ou coisa; veneração
  3. 3
    desvio do interesse sexual para algumas partes do corpo do parceiro, para alguma função fisiológica ou para peças de vestuário, adorno etc.
  4. 4
    ato de tomar partido a favor de uma pessoa ou contra ela, uma facção ou contra ela etc., sem que importe a justiça ou a verdade; parcialidade
  5. 5
    no marxismo, fenômeno no qual o valor de um determinado objeto é percebido como estando nele mesmo, e não no trabalho despendido para criá-lo

Frequency rank: #77,153 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fetichismo"?
"fetichismo" is spelled F-E-T-I-C-H-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is /fɛ.ti.ˈʃiʒ.mu/.
What does "fetichismo" mean?
As a noun, "fetichismo" means: culto de objetos que se supõe representarem entidades espirituais e possuírem poderes de magia
How do you pronounce "fetichismo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fetichismo" is /fɛ.ti.ˈʃiʒ.mu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.