marfim
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,530
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
marfim is aPortuguesenoun. It means: substância que entra na composição dos dentes dos mamíferos; dentina Pronounced /mɐɾ.ˈfĩ/. It ranks #9,530 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with Maria and mirim.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marfim |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐɾ.ˈfĩ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for marfim is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐɾ.ˈfĩ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,530 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for marfim, with forms such as "amrfim", "mafrim", and "marffim". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Maria", "mirim", "Martin", 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 marfim, spelled M-A-R-F-I-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1substância que entra na composição dos dentes dos mamíferos; dentina
- 2dentes de elefante ou de outros animais
- 3obra feita de marfim
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrfim,mafrim,marffim,marfimm,marfmi,marifm,marrfim,mmarfim,mrafim
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "marfim"
Frequency rank: #9,530 in Portuguese
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