indígena
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,826
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
indígena is anPortugueseadj. It means: dos povos nativos da América Pronounced /ĩ.ˈdi.ʒɨ.nɐ/. It ranks #4,826 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with indigno and indireta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indígena |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ĩ.ˈdi.ʒɨ.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for indígena is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.ˈdi.ʒɨ.nɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,826 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for indígena, with forms such as "idnígena", "inddígena", and "indgíena". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "indigno", "indireta", 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 indígena, spelled I-N-D-Í-G-E-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dos povos nativos da América
- 2que é originário do país ou da região em questão
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnígena,inddígena,indgíena,indíegna,indígean,indígenna,indíggena,indígnea,inndígena,inídgena,nidígena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "indígena"
Frequency rank: #4,826 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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