empresa

//ẽ.ˈpɾe.zɐ// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#413

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

empresa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: companhia Pronounced /ẽ.ˈpɾe.zɐ/. It ranks #413 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with emprego and empregar.

Key facts for empresa
PropertyValue
Headwordempresa
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ẽ.ˈpɾe.zɐ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#413
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for empresa is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.ˈpɾe.zɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #413 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for empresa, with forms such as "emmpresa", "empersa", and "emppresa". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "emprego", "empregar", 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 empresa, spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    companhia
  2. 2
    empreendimento

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emmpresa,empersa,emppresa,empreas,empressa,emprresa,emprsea,emrpesa,epmresa,mepresa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empresa

Misspelling Variants of "empresa"

emmpresa8empersa7emppresa8empreas7empressa8emprresa8emprsea7emrpesa7
Misspelling Variants of "empresa"

Frequency rank: #413 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "empresa"?
"empresa" is spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ẽ.ˈpɾe.zɐ/.
What does "empresa" mean?
As a noun, "empresa" means: companhia
What words are commonly confused with "empresa"?
"empresa" is commonly confused with "emprego", "empregar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "empresa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "empresa" is /ẽ.ˈpɾe.zɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "empresa" come from?
"empresa" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.