jade

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for jade is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʒa.dɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #10,913 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "pedra ornamental muito dura e compacta, variando na cor, de esbranquiçada a verde-escura, é formada pela associação da jadeíta e da nefrita; muito utilizada na fabricação de estatuetas e peças de a...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for jade, with forms such as "ajde", "jadde", and "jaed". 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 also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "je", "jed", "José", and more, 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 jade, spelled J-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.