nessa

//ˈnɛ.sɐ// contraction

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#524

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

nessa is aPortuguesecontraction. It means: contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo essa Pronounced /ˈnɛ.sɐ/. It ranks #524 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with news and neta.

Key facts for nessa
PropertyValue
Headwordnessa
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechContraction
IPA/ˈnɛ.sɐ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#524
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for nessa is 5 letters long, classified as acontraction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈnɛ.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #524 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo essa".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for nessa, with forms such as "enssa", "nesa", and "nesas". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "news", "neta", "nest", 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 nessa, spelled N-E-S-S-A, 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 demonstrativo essa

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: enssa,nesa,nesas,nnessa,nsesa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nessa

Misspelling Variants of "nessa"

enssa5nesa4nesas5nnessa6nsesa5
Misspelling Variants of "nessa"

Frequency rank: #524 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nessa"?
"nessa" is spelled N-E-S-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈnɛ.sɐ/.
What does "nessa" mean?
As a contraction, "nessa" means: contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo essa
What words are commonly confused with "nessa"?
"nessa" is commonly confused with "news", "neta", "nest". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nessa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nessa" is /ˈnɛ.sɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nessa" come from?
"nessa" 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.