musical instrument
The verdict
“musical instrument” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: instrumento musical:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | musical instrument |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəɫ ˈɪns.tɹə.mənt/, /ˈmjuː.zɪ.kɫ̩ ˈɪns.tɹə.mənt/ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “musical instrument” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for musical instrument is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəɫ ˈɪns.tɹə.mənt/, /ˈmjuː.zɪ.kɫ̩ ˈɪns.tɹə.mənt/. 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: "instrumento musical:".
No misspelling variants are generated for musical instrument 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 musical instrument, spelled M-U-S-I-C-A-L- -I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1instrumento musical:
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Using “musical instrument”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-U-S-I-C-A-L- -I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəɫ ˈɪns.tɹə.mənt/, /ˈmjuː.zɪ.kɫ̩ ˈɪns.tɹə.mənt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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