dente do siso

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for dente do siso is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdẽ.t͡ʃi du ˈsi.zu/. 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: "cada um dos quatro últimos dentes molares das arcadas dentárias do ser humano, cuja eclosão se dá geralmente na fase adulta (a partir dos dezessete anos de idade)".

No misspelling variants are generated for dente do siso 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 dente do siso, spelled D-E-N-T-E- -D-O- -S-I-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.