piromania
Letters
9 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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piromania is aPortuguesenoun. It means: transtorno de personalidade caracterizado por impulso incontrolável de provocar incêndios, acompanhado de tensão antes do ato e alívio ou prazer após realizá-lo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piromania |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for piromania is 9 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for piromania 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 piromania, spelled P-I-R-O-M-A-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1transtorno de personalidade caracterizado por impulso incontrolável de provocar incêndios, acompanhado de tensão antes do ato e alívio ou prazer após realizá-lo
- 2fascínio ou atração patológica pelo fogo, sem motivação financeira, política ou de vingança
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