desinência
/dɨ.zi.ˈnẽ.sjɐ/
The verdict
“desinência” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terminação ou sufixo de uma palavra que indica sua flexão
Corpus desk
Index PT-desinencia · desinência · Portuguese
desinência · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desinência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨ.zi.ˈnẽ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “desinência” em português
Rare enough to double-check
desinência is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɨ.zi.ˈnẽ.sjɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "terminação ou sufixo de uma palavra que indica sua flexão".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desinência, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 desinência, spelled D-E-S-I-N-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1terminação ou sufixo de uma palavra que indica sua flexão
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.