en quelque sorte

//ɑ̃ kɛl.kə sɔʁt// phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

en quelque sorte is aPortuguesephrase. It means: de certa forma, de certa maneira Pronounced /ɑ̃ kɛl.kə sɔʁt/.

Key facts for en quelque sorte
PropertyValue
Headworden quelque sorte
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/ɑ̃ kɛl.kə sɔʁt/
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

en quelque sorte 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 en quelque sorte is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɑ̃ kɛl.kə sɔʁt/. 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: "de certa forma, de certa maneira".

No misspelling variants are generated for en quelque sorte 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 en quelque sorte, spelled E-N- -Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E- -S-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    de certa forma, de certa maneira

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "en quelque sorte"?
"en quelque sorte" is spelled E-N- -Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E- -S-O-R-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ɑ̃ kɛl.kə sɔʁt/.
What does "en quelque sorte" mean?
As a phrase, "en quelque sorte" means: de certa forma, de certa maneira
How do you pronounce "en quelque sorte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "en quelque sorte" is /ɑ̃ kɛl.kə sɔʁt/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "en quelque sorte" come from?
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Nearby Portuguese words

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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.