gengiva
/ʒẽ.ˈʒi.vɐ/
The verdict
“gengiva” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #36,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,040
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,241
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - porção de mucosa bucal que cobre as arcadas alveolares, incluindo os espaços entre os dentes
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gengiva |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒẽ.ˈʒi.vɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gengiva” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gengiva (IPA /ʒẽ.ˈʒi.vɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,040 among 1,241 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "porção de mucosa bucal que cobre as arcadas alveolares, incluindo os espaços entre os dentes".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gengiva, with forms such as "egngiva", "gegniva", and "genggiva". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is gengiva, spelled G-E-N-G-I-V-A.
Definition
- 1porção de mucosa bucal que cobre as arcadas alveolares, incluindo os espaços entre os dentes
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egngiva
- gegniva
- genggiva
- gengiav
- gengivva
- gengvia
- genigva
- genngiva
- ggengiva
- gnegiva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gengiva - 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 “gengiva”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is G-E-N-G-I-V-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ʒẽ.ˈʒi.vɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.