oficioso
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#78,172
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
oficioso is anPortugueseadj. It means: que costuma prestar serviços, que se empenha em ser útil; serviçal, prestável, prestante, obsequioso
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oficioso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for oficioso is 8 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #78,172 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for oficioso 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 oficioso, spelled O-F-I-C-I-O-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que costuma prestar serviços, que se empenha em ser útil; serviçal, prestável, prestante, obsequioso
- 2destituído de interesses ou lucros; desinteressado, gratuito
- 3que não tem caráter oficial, mas emana de fontes oficiais
- 4que, embora sem caráter oficial, é complacente com o governo (diz-se de publicação)
- 5diz-se do advogado que, sem procuração do réu, é encarregado da defesa deste pelo presidente do tribunal
Antonyms
Frequency rank: #78,172 in Portuguese
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