incontinente
/ĩ.kõ.ti.ˈnẽ.tɨ/
The verdict
“incontinente” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que não tem continência
Corpus desk
Index PT-incontinente · incontinente · Portuguese
incontinente · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incontinente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ĩ.kõ.ti.ˈnẽ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “incontinente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
incontinente is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ĩ.kõ.ti.ˈnẽ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for incontinente, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 incontinente, spelled I-N-C-O-N-T-I-N-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que não tem continência
- 2imoderado
- 3descomedido
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.