chave de fenda

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for chave de fenda is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, 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".

Zero misspellings are on record for chave de fenda in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is chave de fenda, spelled C-H-A-V-E- -D-E- -F-E-N-D-A.