por tudo e por nada
The verdict
“por tudo e por nada” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: por qualquer coisa; ao mais pequeno indício; à mínima oportunidade
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | por tudo e por nada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “por tudo e por nada” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for por tudo e por nada is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "por qualquer coisa; ao mais pequeno indício; à mínima oportunidade".
No misspelling variants are generated for por tudo e por nada 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 por tudo e por nada, spelled P-O-R- -T-U-D-O- -E- -P-O-R- -N-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1por qualquer coisa; ao mais pequeno indício; à mínima oportunidade
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Using “por tudo e por nada”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-O-R- -T-U-D-O- -E- -P-O-R- -N-A-D-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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