índice de massa corporal

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for índice de massa corporal is 24 letters long, classified as aphrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "índice dado pela massa de um indivíduo dividida pela sua altura elevada ao quadrado, utilizado para medir se o peso está acima ou abaixo do ideal".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for índice de massa corporal in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 índice de massa corporal, spelled Í-N-D-I-C-E- -D-E- -M-A-S-S-A- -C-O-R-P-O-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.