instável
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,871
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
instável is anPortugueseadj. It means: não estável Pronounced /ĩʃ.ˈta.vɛɫ/. It ranks #9,871 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with inviável and inegável.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instável |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ĩʃ.ˈta.vɛɫ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for instável is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩʃ.ˈta.vɛɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,871 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for instável, with forms such as "innstável", "insstável", and "insttável". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "inviável", "inegável", "imutável", 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 instável, spelled I-N-S-T-Á-V-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1não estável
- 2movediço
- 3inconstante
- 4que desaparece facilmente
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innstável,insstável,insttável,instváel,instáevl,instávell,instávle,instávvel,insátvel,intsável,isntável,nistável
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for instável
Misspelling Variants of "instável"
Frequency rank: #9,871 in Portuguese
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