informal

//ĩ.fuɾ.ˈmaɫ// adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,701

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

informal is anPortugueseadj. It means: não formal; em que não há formalidade Pronounced /ĩ.fuɾ.ˈmaɫ/. It ranks #9,701 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with informar and infernal.

Key facts for informal
PropertyValue
Headwordinformal
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/ĩ.fuɾ.ˈmaɫ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#9,701
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for informal is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.fuɾ.ˈmaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,701 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "não formal; em que não há formalidade".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for informal, with forms such as "ifnormal", "infformal", and "infomral". 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, "informar", "infernal", 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 informal, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    não formal; em que não há formalidade

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ifnormal,infformal,infomral,inforaml,informall,informla,informmal,inforrmal,infromal,innformal,inofrmal,niformal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for informal

Misspelling Variants of "informal"

ifnormal8infformal9infomral8inforaml8informall9informla8informmal9inforrmal9
Misspelling Variants of "informal"

Frequency rank: #9,701 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "informal"?
"informal" is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is /ĩ.fuɾ.ˈmaɫ/.
What does "informal" mean?
As an adj, "informal" means: não formal; em que não há formalidade
What words are commonly confused with "informal"?
"informal" is commonly confused with "informar", "infernal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "informal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "informal" is /ĩ.fuɾ.ˈmaɫ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "informal" come from?
"informal" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.