dentagem

//deŋ.'ta.ʃen/ ou /deŋ.'ta.ʃe// noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

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dentagem is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o conjunto de dentes da boca, dentadura Pronounced /deŋ.'ta.ʃen/ ou /deŋ.'ta.ʃe/.

Key facts for dentagem
PropertyValue
Headworddentagem
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/deŋ.'ta.ʃen/ ou /deŋ.'ta.ʃe/
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dentagem is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for dentagem is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /deŋ.'ta.ʃen/ ou /deŋ.'ta.ʃe/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for dentagem 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 dentagem, spelled D-E-N-T-A-G-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    o conjunto de dentes da boca, dentadura
  2. 2
    no jugo à molida do carro das vacas, rebaixe onde são passadas e seguradas as correias que atam a cabeça dos animais à canga

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dentagem"?
"dentagem" is spelled D-E-N-T-A-G-E-M. The IPA pronunciation is /deŋ.'ta.ʃen/ ou /deŋ.'ta.ʃe/.
What does "dentagem" mean?
As a noun, "dentagem" means: o conjunto de dentes da boca, dentadura
How do you pronounce "dentagem"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dentagem" is /deŋ.'ta.ʃen/ ou /deŋ.'ta.ʃe/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dentagem" come from?
"dentagem" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.