tatuagem

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tatuagem is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɐ.ˈtwa.ʒɐ̃j̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,350 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "desenho visível na pele humana resultado da aplicação subcutânea de pigmentos introduzidos através de perfurações com agulhas".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for tatuagem, with forms such as "attuagem", "tataugem", and "tattuagem". 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 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 tatuagem, spelled T-A-T-U-A-G-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.