fonte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#894
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
fonte is aPortuguesenoun. It means: lugar onde nasce água Pronounced /ˈfõ.tɨ/. It ranks #894 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with foto and fort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonte |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfõ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fonte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfõ.tɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #894 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fonte, with forms such as "ffonte", "fnote", and "fonet". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "foto", "fort", "fosse", 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 fonte, spelled F-O-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1lugar onde nasce água
- 2chafariz ou bica por onde corre água
- 3cada um dos lados da região temporal
- 4texto original de uma obra
- 5causa, origem
- 6forma de grafia para todos os símbolos de um determinado alfabeto ou conjunto de alfabetos
- 7têmpora, zona da cabeça do osso temporal
- 8grande prato de onde comem todos os comensais
- 9componente de um computador que adapta a tensão da energia que chega pela rede elétrica à voltagem adequada para o uso dos componentes desse mesmo computador
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffonte,fnote,fonet,fonnte,fontte,fotne,ofnte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fonte
Misspelling Variants of "fonte"
Frequency rank: #894 in Portuguese
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