subterfúgio
The verdict
“subterfúgio” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #71,365 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #71,365
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: desvio, desculpa
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subterfúgio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sub.tɨɾ.ˈfu.ʒju/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “subterfúgio” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for subterfúgio is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sub.tɨɾ.ˈfu.ʒju/. Corpus data places it at rank #71,365 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "desvio, desculpa".
No misspelling variants are generated for subterfúgio 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 subterfúgio, spelled S-U-B-T-E-R-F-Ú-G-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1desvio, desculpa
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #71,365 in Portuguese
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Using “subterfúgio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-U-B-T-E-R-F-Ú-G-I-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sub.tɨɾ.ˈfu.ʒju/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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