nelas

contraction

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,231

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

nelas is aPortuguesecontraction. It means: contração da preposição em com o pronome pessoal no plural elas: plural de nela It ranks #8,231 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with news and neta.

Key facts for nelas
PropertyValue
Headwordnelas
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechContraction
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,231
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of nelas in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for nelas is 5 letters long, classified as acontraction. Corpus data places it at rank #8,231 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "contração da preposição em com o pronome pessoal no plural elas: plural de nela".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for nelas, with forms such as "enlas", "neals", and "nelass". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "news", "neta", "nula", 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 nelas, spelled N-E-L-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    contração da preposição em com o pronome pessoal no plural elas: plural de nela

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: enlas,neals,nelass,nellas,nelsa,nleas,nnelas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nelas

Misspelling Variants of "nelas"

enlas5neals5nelass6nellas6nelsa5nleas5nnelas6
Misspelling Variants of "nelas"

Frequency rank: #8,231 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nelas"?
"nelas" is spelled N-E-L-A-S.
What does "nelas" mean?
As a contraction, "nelas" means: contração da preposição em com o pronome pessoal no plural elas: plural de nela
What words are commonly confused with "nelas"?
"nelas" is commonly confused with "news", "neta", "nula". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "nelas" come from?
"nelas" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.