chave de fenda

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for chave de fenda is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃa.vi ʤi ˈfẽ.də], plural: [ˈʃa.viʃ ʤi ˈfẽ.də]. 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: "ferramenta de ponta chata e estreita, usada para acoplar-se na fenda de um parafuso de fenda, possibilitando que seja parafusado ou desparafusado".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chave de fenda in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 chave de fenda, spelled C-H-A-V-E- -D-E- -F-E-N-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.