dżungla
The verdict
“dżungla” 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
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: selva
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dżungla |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʤ̑ũŋɡla/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dżungla” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for dżungla is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʤ̑ũŋɡla/. 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: "selva".
No misspelling variants are generated for dżungla 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 dżungla, spelled D-Ż-U-N-G-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1selva
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Using “dżungla”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-Ż-U-N-G-L-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈʤ̑ũŋɡla/ (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
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