es

//'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?)/ pron

Letters

2 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,631

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

es is aPortuguesepron. It means: ele, ela, aquilo, pronome da terceira pessoa do neutro singular do caso nominativo. Pronounced /'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?). It ranks #2,631 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with eu and et.

Key facts for es
PropertyValue
Headwordes
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPron
IPA/'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?)
Letters2
Frequency rank#2,631
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for es is 2 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?). Corpus data places it at rank #2,631 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for es in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eu", "et", "ev", 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 es, spelled E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ele, ela, aquilo, pronome da terceira pessoa do neutro singular do caso nominativo.
  2. 2
    ele, ela, aquilo, pronome da terceira pessoa do neutro singular do caso acusativo.

Frequency rank: #2,631 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "es"?
"es" is spelled E-S. The IPA pronunciation is /'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?).
What does "es" mean?
As a pron, "es" means: ele, ela, aquilo, pronome da terceira pessoa do neutro singular do caso nominativo.
What words are commonly confused with "es"?
"es" is commonly confused with "eu", "et", "ev". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "es"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "es" is /'ɛs/ ouvir ^(fonte ?). Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "es" come from?
"es" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Portuguese index:

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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.