salário-família
The verdict
“salário-família” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - benefício pago pela Previdência Social brasileira aos trabalhadores com salário mensal na faixa de baixa renda, para auxiliar no sustento dos filhos
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salário-família |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salário-família” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
salário-família is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "benefício pago pela Previdência Social brasileira aos trabalhadores com salário mensal na faixa de baixa renda, para auxiliar no sustento dos filhos".
salário-família doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is salário-família, spelled S-A-L-Á-R-I-O---F-A-M-Í-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1benefício pago pela Previdência Social brasileira aos trabalhadores com salário mensal na faixa de baixa renda, para auxiliar no sustento dos filhos
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “salário-família”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-L-Á-R-I-O---F-A-M-Í-L-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.