fonética
/foˈnɛ.t͡ʃi.kɐ/
The verdict
“fonética” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #49,979. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,979
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,704
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - estudo sobre os sons da fala humana, com foco nas propriedades físicas dos sons produzidos (fonemas) e os processos de sua produção fisiológica, da recepção auditiva e percepção neurofisiológica, c...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonética |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /foˈnɛ.t͡ʃi.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fonética” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fonética (IPA /foˈnɛ.t͡ʃi.kɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,979 among 1,704 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fonética, with forms such as "ffonética", "fnoética", and "fonnética". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is fonética, spelled F-O-N-É-T-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1estudo sobre os sons da fala humana, com foco nas propriedades físicas dos sons produzidos (fonemas) e os processos de sua produção fisiológica, da recepção auditiva e percepção neurofisiológica, com sua representação por símbolos escritos
- 2análise descritiva das peculiaridades dos sons da fala em certa língua ou idioma
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffonética
- fnoética
- fonnética
- fontéica
- fonéitca
- fonétcia
- fonétiac
- fonéticca
- fonéttica
- foéntica
- ofnética
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fonética - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fonética”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is F-O-N-É-T-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /foˈnɛ.t͡ʃi.kɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.