em vez de

//ĩ vez ˈdi// phrase

Letters

9 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

em vez de is aPortuguesephrase. It means: em substituição a; em lugar de; no lugar de Pronounced /ĩ vez ˈdi/.

Key facts for em vez de
PropertyValue
Headwordem vez de
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/ĩ vez ˈdi/
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

em vez de is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    em substituição a; em lugar de; no lugar de
  2. 2
    ao contrário de; ao invés de

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "em vez de"?
"em vez de" is spelled E-M- -V-E-Z- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ĩ vez ˈdi/.
What does "em vez de" mean?
As a phrase, "em vez de" means: em substituição a; em lugar de; no lugar de
How do you pronounce "em vez de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "em vez de" is /ĩ vez ˈdi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "em vez de" come from?
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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.