acender
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,817
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
acender is aPortugueseverb. It means: pôr fogo a Pronounced /ɐ.sẽ.ˈdeɾ/. Often confused with atender and aprender.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acender |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.sẽ.ˈdeɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for acender is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.sẽ.ˈdeɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #10,817 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for acender, with forms such as "accender", "acedner", and "acendder". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "atender", "aprender", "ascender", and more, 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 acender, spelled A-C-E-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pôr fogo a
- 2fazer arder
- 3ligar
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accender,acedner,acendder,acenderr,acendre,acenedr,acennder,acneder,aecnder,caender
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acender
Misspelling Variants of "acender"
Frequency rank: #10,817 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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