licença-maternidade

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for licença-maternidade is 19 letters long, classified as anoun. 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: "período que a mulher tem após o parto; legalmente dura 4 meses e pode ser estendido para 6 meses, dependendo do empregador; essa licença também pode ser usufruida por aquelas que adotam um filho".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for licença-maternidade 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 licença-maternidade, spelled L-I-C-E-N-Ç-A---M-A-T-E-R-N-I-D-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.