impossível

//ĩ.pu.ˈsi.vɛɫ// adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,242

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

impossível is anPortugueseadj. It means: que não é possível ou apenas o será muito dificilmente Pronounced /ĩ.pu.ˈsi.vɛɫ/. It ranks #1,242 in Portuguese word frequency.

Key facts for impossível
PropertyValue
Headwordimpossível
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/ĩ.pu.ˈsi.vɛɫ/
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,242
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of impossível in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for impossível is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.pu.ˈsi.vɛɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,242 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for impossível, with forms such as "immpossível", "imopssível", and "impossvíel". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 impossível, spelled I-M-P-O-S-S-Í-V-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    que não é possível ou apenas o será muito dificilmente
  2. 2
    incrível, extraordinário
  3. 3
    insuportável
  4. 4
    desobediente, teimoso
  5. 5
    algo que acredita-se que não dá para fazer

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: immpossível,imopssível,impossvíel,impossíevl,impossívell,impossívle,impossívvel,imposísvel,imposível,imppossível,impsosível,ipmossível,mipossível

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for impossível

Misspelling Variants of "impossível"

immpossível11imopssível10impossvíel10impossíevl10impossívell11impossívle10impossívvel11imposísvel10
Misspelling Variants of "impossível"

Frequency rank: #1,242 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impossível"?
"impossível" is spelled I-M-P-O-S-S-Í-V-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is /ĩ.pu.ˈsi.vɛɫ/.
What does "impossível" mean?
As an adj, "impossível" means: que não é possível ou apenas o será muito dificilmente
What are common misspellings of "impossível"?
Common misspellings include "immpossível", "imopssível", "impossvíel", "impossíevl", "impossívell". The correct spelling is "impossível".
How do you pronounce "impossível"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "impossível" is /ĩ.pu.ˈsi.vɛɫ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "impossível" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.