origem
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,082
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
origem is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ponto inicial de uma ação ou coisa que tem continuidade no tempo e/ou no espaço; ponto de partida Pronounced /ɔ.ˈɾi.ʒɐ̃j̃/. It ranks #1,082 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ordem.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | origem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.ˈɾi.ʒɐ̃j̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for origem is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.ˈɾi.ʒɐ̃j̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,082 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for origem, with forms such as "oirgem", "orgiem", and "oriegm". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ordem", 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 origem, spelled O-R-I-G-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ponto inicial de uma ação ou coisa que tem continuidade no tempo e/ou no espaço; ponto de partida
- 2local de nascimento
- 3local de nascimento
- 4local de nascimento
- 5a sequência das gerações anteriores de um indivíduo ou de uma família; proveniência de um grupo social ou de um povo
- 6a nascente de um rio
- 7qualidade de procedência
- 8aquilo que provoca, ocasiona ou determina uma atitude, um acontecimento, a existência de algo
- 9motivo que se declara para esconder a verdadeira causa de (algo)
- 10descrição de uma palavra nos diferentes estados de língua anteriores por que passou
- 11descrição de uma palavra nos diferentes estados de língua anteriores por que passou
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oirgem,orgiem,oriegm,origemm,origgem,origme,orrigem,roigem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for origem
Misspelling Variants of "origem"
Frequency rank: #1,082 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our Portuguese index: