parente

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,979

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

parente is aPortuguesenoun. It means: indivíduo que, em relação a outro, pertence à mesma família It ranks #5,979 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with parte and pente.

Key facts for parente
PropertyValue
Headwordparente
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,979
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for parente is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,979 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for parente, with forms such as "aprente", "paernte", and "parenet". 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, "parte", "pente", "perene", 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 parente, spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    indivíduo que, em relação a outro, pertence à mesma família
  2. 2
    denominação que um indígena dá a outro (como usado no Brasil)

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aprente,paernte,parenet,parennte,parentte,paretne,parnete,parrente,pparente,praente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parente

Misspelling Variants of "parente"

aprente7paernte7parenet7parennte8parentte8paretne7parnete7parrente8
Misspelling Variants of "parente"

Frequency rank: #5,979 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parente"?
"parente" is spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-E.
What does "parente" mean?
As a noun, "parente" means: indivíduo que, em relação a outro, pertence à mesma família
What words are commonly confused with "parente"?
"parente" is commonly confused with "parte", "pente", "perene". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "parente" come from?
"parente" 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 P 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.