sífilis

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sífilis is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsi.fi.liʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #23,840 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "doença sexualmente transmitida (DST) causada por um espiroqueta chamado Treponema pallidum".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sífilis, with forms such as "sfíilis", "ssífilis", and "síffilis". 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 also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Sicília", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 sífilis, spelled S-Í-F-I-L-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.