et al.
The verdict
“et al.” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as an abbreviation — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: abreviatura de et alii (e outros, masculino), et aliae (e outros, feminino) ou et alia (e outros, neutro): e outros
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | et al. |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /eʔˈaw/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “et al.” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for et al. is 6 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /eʔˈaw/. 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: "abreviatura de et alii (e outros, masculino), et aliae (e outros, feminino) ou et alia (e outros, neutro): e outros".
No misspelling variants are generated for et al. 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 et al., spelled E-T- -A-L-., and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1abreviatura de et alii (e outros, masculino), et aliae (e outros, feminino) ou et alia (e outros, neutro): e outros
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Using “et al.”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-T- -A-L-. — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /eʔˈaw/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Portuguese words
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