děti
The verdict
“děti” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 4
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: nominativo plural do substantivo dítě
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | děti |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɟɛcɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “děti” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for děti is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɟɛcɪ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for děti 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 děti, spelled D-Ě-T-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nominativo plural do substantivo dítě
- 2acusativo plural do substantivo dítě
- 3vocativo plural do substantivo dítě
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Using “děti”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-Ě-T-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɟɛcɪ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
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