parafina
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,776
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
parafina is aPortuguesenoun. It means: designação comum dos hidrocarbonetos saturados (alcanos), geralmente sólidos, obtidos a partir do petróleo ou de outras fontes orgânicas, usados em velas, fósforos, isolamento elétrico, cosméticos ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parafina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for parafina is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #51,776 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for parafina 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 parafina, spelled P-A-R-A-F-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1designação comum dos hidrocarbonetos saturados (alcanos), geralmente sólidos, obtidos a partir do petróleo ou de outras fontes orgânicas, usados em velas, fósforos, isolamento elétrico, cosméticos e medicamentos
- 2mistura de hidrocarbonetos sólidos, brancos e praticamente inodoros, impermeáveis e fáceis de moldar
Frequency rank: #51,776 in Portuguese
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