eterno
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,945
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
eterno is anPortugueseadj. It means: que não tem princípio nem terá fim It ranks #5,945 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with externo and entorno.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eterno |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for eterno is 6 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #5,945 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for eterno, with forms such as "eetrno", "etenro", and "eternno". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "externo", "entorno", "enterro", 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 eterno, spelled E-T-E-R-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que não tem princípio nem terá fim
- 2que não tem fim, infinito
- 3que dura sempre
- 4inalterável
- 5que tem duração indefinida
- 6que não se sabe quando finda
- 7enorme
- 8desmedido
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eetrno,etenro,eternno,eteron,eterrno,etreno,etterno,teerno
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for eterno
Misspelling Variants of "eterno"
Frequency rank: #5,945 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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