neve
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,787
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
neve is aPortuguesenoun. It means: precipitação de cristais de gelo, frequentemente agrupados em flocos e formados pelo congelamento do vapor de água que se encontra suspenso na atmosfera Pronounced /ˈnɛ.vɨ/. It ranks #3,787 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with new and novo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neve |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈnɛ.vɨ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for neve is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈnɛ.vɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,787 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for neve, with forms such as "enve", "neev", and "nevve". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "new", "novo", "nome", 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 neve, spelled N-E-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1precipitação de cristais de gelo, frequentemente agrupados em flocos e formados pelo congelamento do vapor de água que se encontra suspenso na atmosfera
- 2floco ou conjunto de flocos desses cristais
- 3frio excessivo
- 4a cor branca muito alva
- 5cabelos brancos
- 6iguaria preparada com açúcar, leite ou suco de frutas; sorvete
- 7conjunto de pontos brancos e diminutos que se formam na tela de televisor ou radar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enve,neev,nevve,nneve,nvee
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for neve
Misspelling Variants of "neve"
Frequency rank: #3,787 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Portuguese index: