êxtase
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,033
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
êxtase is aPortuguesenoun. It means: estado, causado em geral por alegria, prática religiosa, ou outra emoção forte, em que o indivíduo se sente transportado para fora de si próprio, elevado a realidades que ultrapassam o sensível Pronounced /ˈɐjʃ.tɐ.zɨ/. Often confused with exame and estate.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | êxtase |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɐjʃ.tɐ.zɨ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for êxtase is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɐjʃ.tɐ.zɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,033 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 êxtase, with forms such as "xêtase", "êtxase", and "êxatse". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "exame", "estate", "excuse", 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 êxtase, spelled Ê-X-T-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1estado, causado em geral por alegria, prática religiosa, ou outra emoção forte, em que o indivíduo se sente transportado para fora de si próprio, elevado a realidades que ultrapassam o sensível
- 2encanto, admiração, assombro
- 3droga moderna sintetizada (feita em laboratório), neurotóxica, cujo efeito na fisiologia humana é a diminuição da reabsorção da serotonina, da dopamina e da noradrenalina no cérebro, onde estas substâncias ficarão em maior contato entre as sinapses, causando euforia, sensação de bem-estar, alterações da percepção sensorial do consumidor e grande perda de líquidos, pertencente à família das anfetaminas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: xêtase,êtxase,êxatse,êxtaes,êxtasse,êxtsae,êxttase,êxxtase
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Misspelling Variants of "êxtase"
Frequency rank: #19,033 in Portuguese
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