então

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for então is 5 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #120 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for então, with forms such as "enntão", "entoã", and "enttão". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "ETA", "está", "Ente", and more, 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 então, spelled E-N-T-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.