antena
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,421
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
antena is aPortuguesenoun. It means: dispositivo de transmissão de ondas de rádio e de seu recebimento Pronounced /ɐ̃.ˈte.nɐ/. It ranks #8,421 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with antes and arena.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antena |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ̃.ˈte.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for antena is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ̃.ˈte.nɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,421 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for antena, with forms such as "anetna", "anntena", and "antean". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "antes", "arena", "ateia", 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 antena, spelled A-N-T-E-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dispositivo de transmissão de ondas de rádio e de seu recebimento
- 2atenção
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anetna,anntena,antean,antenna,antnea,anttena,atnena,natena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for antena
Misspelling Variants of "antena"
Frequency rank: #8,421 in Portuguese
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