entendimento
/ẽ.tẽ.di.ˈmẽ.tu/
The verdict
“entendimento” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #5,191 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,191
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - faculdade de entender, de conceber, de julgar as coisas
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entendimento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ẽ.tẽ.di.ˈmẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “entendimento” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for entendimento is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.tẽ.di.ˈmẽ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,191 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for entendimento, with forms such as "enetndimento", "enntendimento", and "entednimento". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is entendimento, spelled E-N-T-E-N-D-I-M-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1faculdade de entender, de conceber, de julgar as coisas
- 2compreensão
- 3percepção
- 4juízo, razão
- 5inteligência
- 6acordo
- 7concordância
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enetndimento,enntendimento,entednimento,entenddimento,entendiemnto,entendimennto,entendimenot,entendimentto,entendimetno,entendimmento,entendimneto,entendmiento,entenidmento,entenndimento,entnedimento,enttendimento,etnendimento,netendimento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entendimento - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “entendimento”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-N-T-E-N-D-I-M-E-N-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ẽ.tẽ.di.ˈmẽ.tu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.