náufrago

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for náufrago is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #54,025 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "pessoa que sofreu um naufrágio".

No misspelling variants are generated for náufrago 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 náufrago, spelled N-Á-U-F-R-A-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.