dessen

//'dɛ.sən/, /ˈdɛ.sn̩// pron

Letters

6 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dessen is aPortuguesepron. It means: deste, desse, daquele, pronome demonstrativo masculino do caso genitivo singular: Pronounced /'dɛ.sən/, /ˈdɛ.sn̩/.

Key facts for dessen
PropertyValue
Headworddessen
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPron
IPA/'dɛ.sən/, /ˈdɛ.sn̩/
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for dessen is 6 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /'dɛ.sən/, /ˈdɛ.sn̩/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dessen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 dessen, spelled D-E-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    deste, desse, daquele, pronome demonstrativo masculino do caso genitivo singular:
  2. 2
    deste, desta, disto, desse, dessa, disso, daquele, daquela, daquilo, pronome demonstrativo neutro do caso genitivo singular;
  3. 3
    cujo, de quem, de que, do qual, pronome relativo masculino do caso genitivo singular:
  4. 4
    de que, do qual, da qual, pronome relativo neutro do caso genitivo singular:

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dessen"?
"dessen" is spelled D-E-S-S-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is /'dɛ.sən/, /ˈdɛ.sn̩/.
What does "dessen" mean?
As a pron, "dessen" means: deste, desse, daquele, pronome demonstrativo masculino do caso genitivo singular:
How do you pronounce "dessen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dessen" is /'dɛ.sən/, /ˈdɛ.sn̩/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dessen" come from?
"dessen" 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

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.