může

//ˈmuːʒɛ// verb

The verdict

“může” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
4
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: 3ª pessoa singular do indicativo presente do verbo moct

Key facts for může
PropertyValue
Headwordmůže
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/ˈmuːʒɛ/
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “může” sits in Portuguese frequency

může falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for může is 4 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmuːʒɛ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3ª pessoa singular do indicativo presente do verbo moct".

No misspelling variants are generated for může in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 může, spelled M-Ů-Ž-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    3ª pessoa singular do indicativo presente do verbo moct

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "může"?
"může" is spelled M-Ů-Ž-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈmuːʒɛ/.
What does "může" mean?
As a verb, "může" means: 3ª pessoa singular do indicativo presente do verbo moct
How do you pronounce "může"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "může" is /ˈmuːʒɛ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "může" come from?
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Using “může”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-Ů-Ž-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /ˈmuːʒɛ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.