nunc
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,720
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
nunc is anPortugueseadv. It means: agora, já (sentido principal; frequentemente contrastado com o futuro ou passado; reforçado por demum, denique, primum ou ipsum) Pronounced /nʊnk/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nunc |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | /nʊnk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for nunc is 4 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /nʊnk/. Corpus data places it at rank #55,720 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for nunc in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 nunc, spelled N-U-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1agora, já (sentido principal; frequentemente contrastado com o futuro ou passado; reforçado por demum, denique, primum ou ipsum)
- 2marca um tempo de referência:
- 3marca um tempo de referência:
- 4marca um tempo de referência:
- 5marca um tempo de referência:
- 6no estado atual, atualmente
- 7marca uma conclusão, nesse caso
- 8marca uma transição, enfim
Frequency rank: #55,720 in Portuguese
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