nesses

//ˈne.sis// contraction

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,783

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

nesses is aPortuguesecontraction. It means: contração da preposição em com o pronome demonstrativo esses Pronounced /ˈne.sis/. It ranks #2,783 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with nestes and nessa.

Key facts for nesses
PropertyValue
Headwordnesses
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechContraction
IPA/ˈne.sis/
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,783
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for nesses is 6 letters long, classified as acontraction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈne.sis/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,783 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 demonstrativo esses".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for nesses, with forms such as "ensses", "neses", and "nesess". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "nestes", "nessa", "nessas", 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 nesses, spelled N-E-S-S-E-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 demonstrativo esses

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ensses,neses,nesess,nessess,nessse,nnesses,nseses

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nesses

Misspelling Variants of "nesses"

ensses6neses5nesess6nessess7nessse6nnesses7nseses6
Misspelling Variants of "nesses"

Frequency rank: #2,783 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

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