ilegítimo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for ilegítimo is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.lɨ.ˈʒi.ti.mu/. Corpus data places it at rank #27,131 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "não legítimo".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ilegítimo, with forms such as "ielgítimo", "ileggítimo", and "ilegtíimo". 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 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 ilegítimo, spelled I-L-E-G-Í-T-I-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.