infâmia
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,472
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
infâmia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: abalo ou dano à boa fama Pronounced /ĩ.ˈfɐ.mjɐ/. Often confused with infância and infame.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infâmia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ĩ.ˈfɐ.mjɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for infâmia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.ˈfɐ.mjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,472 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for infâmia, with forms such as "ifnâmia", "inffâmia", and "infmâia". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "infância", "infame", 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 infâmia, spelled I-N-F-Â-M-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1abalo ou dano à boa fama
- 2descrédito, desonra
- 3maldade, vilania, torpeza
- 4tipo de senso de humor ligado ao non-sense
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnâmia,inffâmia,infmâia,infâima,infâmai,infâmmia,innfâmia,inâfmia,nifâmia
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Misspelling Variants of "infâmia"
Frequency rank: #48,472 in Portuguese
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