docente

//du.ˈsẽ.tɨ// adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,756

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

docente is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo a professor Pronounced /du.ˈsẽ.tɨ/. It ranks #8,756 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with doente and dormente.

Key facts for docente
PropertyValue
Headworddocente
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/du.ˈsẽ.tɨ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,756
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of docente in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for docente is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /du.ˈsẽ.tɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,756 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relativo a professor".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for docente, with forms such as "dcoente", "ddocente", and "doccente". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "doente", "dormente", "dente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 docente, spelled D-O-C-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo a professor

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcoente,ddocente,doccente,docenet,docennte,docentte,docetne,docnete,doecnte,odcente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for docente

Misspelling Variants of "docente"

dcoente7ddocente8doccente8docenet7docennte8docentte8docetne7docnete7
Misspelling Variants of "docente"

Frequency rank: #8,756 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "docente"?
"docente" is spelled D-O-C-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is /du.ˈsẽ.tɨ/.
What does "docente" mean?
As an adj, "docente" means: relativo a professor
What words are commonly confused with "docente"?
"docente" is commonly confused with "doente", "dormente", "dente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "docente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "docente" is /du.ˈsẽ.tɨ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "docente" come from?
"docente" 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.