né

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for né is 2 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #1,856 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "particípio passado do verbo naitre".

No misspelling variants are generated for né in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "nu", "ni", 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 né, spelled N-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.