een
/ən/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“een” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #63,492 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an article.
- #63,492
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - a, o; colocado antes de um substantivo singular indicando generalidade
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | een |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | /ən/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “een” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for een is 3 letters long, classified as an article, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ən/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Corpus data places it at rank #63,492 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "a, o; colocado antes de um substantivo singular indicando generalidade".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for een, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is een, spelled E-E-N.
Definition
- 1a, o; colocado antes de um substantivo singular indicando generalidade
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “een”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ən/ ouvir^(fonte ?) (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.