maltrapilho

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for maltrapilho is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /maw.tɾaˈpi.ʎu/ [maʊ̯.tɾaˈpi.ʎu]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,089 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "diz-se do indivíduo mal vestido, com roupas aos farrapos ou em desalinho".

No misspelling variants are generated for maltrapilho in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 maltrapilho, spelled M-A-L-T-R-A-P-I-L-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.