außer Frage
The verdict
“außer Frage” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: fora de questão
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | außer Frage |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈaʊ̯sɐˌfraːɡə/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “außer Frage” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for außer Frage is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈaʊ̯sɐˌfraːɡə/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "fora de questão".
No misspelling variants are generated for außer Frage 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 außer Frage, spelled A-U-S-S-E-R- -F-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1fora de questão
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Using “außer Frage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-U-S-S-E-R- -F-R-A-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈaʊ̯sɐˌfraːɡə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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