nefasto
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,019
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
nefasto is anPortugueseadj. It means: de mau agouro, agourento, azarento, funesto, trágico, sinistro Pronounced /nɨ.ˈfaʃ.tu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nefasto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /nɨ.ˈfaʃ.tu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for nefasto is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /nɨ.ˈfaʃ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #54,019 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for nefasto 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 nefasto, spelled N-E-F-A-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1de mau agouro, agourento, azarento, funesto, trágico, sinistro
- 2que causa desgraça; nocivo, maligno, maléfico, abominável, iníquo, terrível, perverso, infesto, peçonhento, tóxico, detestável, danoso, daninho
- 3que evoca a morte, fatal, tuluoso, fúnebre, macabro, feral
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #54,019 in Portuguese
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