fosse
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#348
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
fosse is aPortugueseverb. It means: primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do conjuntivo do verbo ser Pronounced /ˈfo.si/. It ranks #348 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with foste and fosso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fosse |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfo.si/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fosse is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfo.si/. Corpus data places it at rank #348 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fosse, with forms such as "ffosse", "fose", and "foses". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "foste", "fosso", "fossem", 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 fosse, spelled F-O-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do conjuntivo do verbo ser
- 2terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do conjuntivo do verbo ser
- 3primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do conjuntivo do verbo ir
- 4terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do conjuntivo do verbo ir
- 5primeira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo do verbo fossar
- 6terceira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo do verbo fossar
- 7terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo do verbo fossar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffosse,fose,foses,fsose,ofsse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fosse
Misspelling Variants of "fosse"
Frequency rank: #348 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Portuguese index: