conjuntiva
The verdict
“conjuntiva” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #71,617 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #71,617
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: membrana mucosa dos olhos dos vertebrados que reveste a parte interna da pálpebra e parte da córnea, recobrindo a esclerótica, protegendo as partes internas do globo ocular e permitindo-lhe a lubri...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conjuntiva |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.ʒũˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conjuntiva” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for conjuntiva is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kõ.ʒũˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #71,617 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "membrana mucosa dos olhos dos vertebrados que reveste a parte interna da pálpebra e parte da córnea, recobrindo a esclerótica, protegendo as partes internas do globo ocular e permitindo-lhe a lubri...".
No misspelling variants are generated for conjuntiva 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 conjuntiva, spelled C-O-N-J-U-N-T-I-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1membrana mucosa dos olhos dos vertebrados que reveste a parte interna da pálpebra e parte da córnea, recobrindo a esclerótica, protegendo as partes internas do globo ocular e permitindo-lhe a lubrificação
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Frequency rank: #71,617 in Portuguese
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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-N-J-U-N-T-I-V-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kõ.ʒũˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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