em vez de
Letters
9 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
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em vez de is aPortuguesephrase. It means: em substituição a; em lugar de; no lugar de Pronounced /ĩ vez ˈdi/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | em vez de |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ĩ vez ˈdi/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for em vez de is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ vez ˈdi/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for em vez de 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 em vez de, spelled E-M- -V-E-Z- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1em substituição a; em lugar de; no lugar de
- 2ao contrário de; ao invés de
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