perfume

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,672

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

perfume is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aroma que emana de algo, por exemplo, dos corpos ou plantas e que geralmente é agradável It ranks #5,672 in Portuguese word frequency.

Key facts for perfume
PropertyValue
Headwordperfume
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,672
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for perfume is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,672 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for perfume, with forms such as "eprfume", "pefrume", and "perffume". 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 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 perfume, spelled P-E-R-F-U-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    aroma que emana de algo, por exemplo, dos corpos ou plantas e que geralmente é agradável
  2. 2
    composição preparada combinando diferentes essências para se obter um odor desejado e específico
  3. 3
    suave

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Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprfume,pefrume,perffume,perfmue,perfuem,perfumme,perrfume,perufme,pperfume,prefume

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for perfume

Misspelling Variants of "perfume"

eprfume7pefrume7perffume8perfmue7perfuem7perfumme8perrfume8perufme7
Misspelling Variants of "perfume"

Frequency rank: #5,672 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "perfume"?
"perfume" is spelled P-E-R-F-U-M-E.
What does "perfume" mean?
As a noun, "perfume" means: aroma que emana de algo, por exemplo, dos corpos ou plantas e que geralmente é agradável
What are common misspellings of "perfume"?
Common misspellings include "eprfume", "pefrume", "perffume", "perfmue", "perfuem". The correct spelling is "perfume".
What language does "perfume" come from?
"perfume" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.