inté

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The verdict

“inté” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #93,896 among 1,526 “I” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,896
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,526
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressa despedimento no momento de ir embora

Key facts for inté
PropertyValue
Headwordinté
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechInterjection
Letters4
Frequency rank#93,896
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “inté” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). inté lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

inté is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #93,896 among 1,526 “I” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "expressa despedimento no momento de ir embora".

inté doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 inté, spelled I-N-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    expressa despedimento no momento de ir embora

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inté"?
"inté" is spelled I-N-T-É.
What does "inté" mean?
As an interjection, "inté" means: expressa despedimento no momento de ir embora
What language does "inté" come from?
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Using “inté”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-N-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list