paternalismo

noun

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

Key facts for paternalismo
PropertyValue
Headwordpaternalismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Frequency rank#87,566
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of paternalismo in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    sistema de relações sociais e trabalhistas, unidos por um conjunto de valores, doutrinas políticas e normas fundadas na valorização positiva da pessoa do patriarca
  2. 2
    modalidade 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

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paternalismo"?
"paternalismo" is spelled P-A-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-S-M-O.
What does "paternalismo" mean?
As a noun, "paternalismo" 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
What language does "paternalismo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.