paternalismo
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#87,566
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
paternalismo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sistema de relações sociais e trabalhistas, unidos por um conjunto de valores, doutrinas políticas e normas fundadas na valorização positiva da pessoa do patriarca
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paternalismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for paternalismo is 12 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #87,566 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 paternalismo 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 paternalismo, spelled P-A-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sistema de relações sociais e trabalhistas, unidos por um conjunto de valores, doutrinas políticas e normas fundadas na valorização positiva da pessoa do patriarca
- 2modalidade de autoritarismo, na qual uma pessoa exerce o poder sobre outra combinando decisões arbitrárias e inquestionáveis, com elementos sentimentais e concessões graciosas
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #87,566 in Portuguese
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