avental
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,435
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
avental is aPortuguesenoun. It means: peça de vestuário que cobre a parte da frente do corpo, é amarrada na cintura, e serve para proteger da sujeira a roupa que a pessoa está usando enquanto desempenha funções como cozinhar, pintar, s... Pronounced /a.vẽˈtaw/. Often confused with atentar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avental |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /a.vẽˈtaw/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for avental is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.vẽˈtaw/. Corpus data places it at rank #30,435 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 avental, with forms such as "aevntal", "avenatl", and "avenntal". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "atentar", 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 avental, spelled A-V-E-N-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1peça de vestuário que cobre a parte da frente do corpo, é amarrada na cintura, e serve para proteger da sujeira a roupa que a pessoa está usando enquanto desempenha funções como cozinhar, pintar, soldar, etc.
- 2peça de vestuário similar à anterior que é usada apenas por diante da saia, por vezes como adorno
- 3proteção de couro ou material similar para quem viaja na dianteira de uma carruagem para proteger-se da lama
- 4espécie de guarda-pó usado por profissionais da saúde ou cientistas
- 5espécie de mandil que é posto em carneiros e bodes e que lhes impede a cópula
- 6peça de ferro da fornalha
- 7capote
- 8roupas que são dadas às empregadas domésticas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aevntal,avenatl,avenntal,aventall,aventla,aventtal,avetnal,avnetal,avvental,vaental
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Misspelling Variants of "avental"
Frequency rank: #30,435 in Portuguese
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