formiga
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,012
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
formiga is aPortuguesenoun. It means: designação comum a todos os insetos himenópteros da família dos formicídeos, que formam sociedades perenes compostas por rainhas, machos e operárias; caracteriza-se pela forma peculiar do pedículo ... Pronounced /for.ˈmi.ɡa/. Often confused with fórmula and Formosa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formiga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /for.ˈmi.ɡa/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for formiga is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /for.ˈmi.ɡa/. Corpus data places it at rank #10,012 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 formiga, with forms such as "fformiga", "fomriga", and "forimga". 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, "fórmula", "Formosa", 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 formiga, spelled F-O-R-M-I-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1designação comum a todos os insetos himenópteros da família dos formicídeos, que formam sociedades perenes compostas por rainhas, machos e operárias; caracteriza-se pela forma peculiar do pedículo abdominal, que apresenta um ou dois segmentos escamiformes
- 2pessoa econômica e/ou trabalhadora, diligente
- 3pessoa que gosta de doces
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fformiga,fomriga,forimga,formgia,formiag,formigga,formmiga,forrmiga,fromiga,ofrmiga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for formiga
Misspelling Variants of "formiga"
Frequency rank: #10,012 in Portuguese
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "formiga"?
What does "formiga" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "formiga"?
How do you pronounce "formiga"?
What language does "formiga" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Portuguese index: