entre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#71
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
entre is aPortugueseprep. It means: designa relação de situação em meio de, ou de situação no espaço que separa Pronounced /ˈẽ.tɾɨ/. It ranks #71 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with este and erre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entre |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | /ˈẽ.tɾɨ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for entre is 5 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈẽ.tɾɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #71 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for entre, with forms such as "enntre", "enrte", and "enter". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "este", "erre", "être", 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 entre, spelled E-N-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1designa relação de situação em meio de, ou de situação no espaço que separa
- 2dentro de
- 3em o número de
- 4designa também o tempo médio ou aquilo que está na alternativa
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enntre,enrte,enter,entrre,enttre,etnre,netre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for entre
Misspelling Variants of "entre"
Frequency rank: #71 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Portuguese index: