mão de ferro
The verdict
“mão de ferro” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: governo tirânico, opressor
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mão de ferro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mão de ferro” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mão de ferro is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mão de ferro 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 mão de ferro, spelled M-Ã-O- -D-E- -F-E-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1governo tirânico, opressor
- 2(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) autoridade implacável; firmeza
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Using “mão de ferro”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-Ã-O- -D-E- -F-E-R-R-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Nearby Portuguese words
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