gaveta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,475
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
gaveta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: compartimento horizontal, sem tampa e corrediço que se puxa de um móvel para se ter acesso a ele Often confused with gazeta and galera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaveta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for gaveta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #11,475 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 gaveta, with forms such as "agveta", "gaevta", and "gaveat". 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, "gazeta", "galera", "gaivota", 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 gaveta, spelled G-A-V-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1compartimento horizontal, sem tampa e corrediço que se puxa de um móvel para se ter acesso a ele
- 2área, dentro do espaço determinado pela trave e o piso do campo, que é bem próxima simultaneamente ao poste horizontal e ao vertical
- 3compartimento na estrutura de um cemitério vertical em que os restos mortais de um falecido são depositados
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agveta,gaevta,gaveat,gavetta,gavtea,gavveta,ggaveta,gvaeta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gaveta
Misspelling Variants of "gaveta"
Frequency rank: #11,475 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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