lema
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,042
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lema is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ideia expressa por uma frase que serve de guia ou de motivação para uma pessoa, grupo, seita, país ou nação Pronounced /ˈle.mɐ/. It ranks #7,042 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ler and lua.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lema |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈle.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for lema is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈle.mɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,042 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for lema, with forms such as "elma", "leam", and "lemma". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ler", "lua", "leo", and more, 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 lema, spelled L-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ideia expressa por uma frase que serve de guia ou de motivação para uma pessoa, grupo, seita, país ou nação
- 2a forma canônica de uma palavra
- 3teorema usado como um passo intermediário para atingir um resultado maior
- 4simultaneamente uma contenção para premissas abaixo dele e uma premissa para uma contenção acima dele
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elma,leam,lemma,llema,lmea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lema
Misspelling Variants of "lema"
Frequency rank: #7,042 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Portuguese index: