parêntese
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#82,316
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
parêntese is aPortuguesenoun. It means: palavra, expressão ou frase imposta num texto para adicionar informação sem afetar a estrutura sintática do período em que é inserido Pronounced /pɐ.ˈɾẽ.tɨ.zɨ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parêntese |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɐ.ˈɾẽ.tɨ.zɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for parêntese is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɐ.ˈɾẽ.tɨ.zɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #82,316 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for parêntese 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 parêntese, spelled P-A-R-Ê-N-T-E-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1palavra, expressão ou frase imposta num texto para adicionar informação sem afetar a estrutura sintática do período em que é inserido
- 2parêntesis; os caracteres "(" e ")"
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Frequency rank: #82,316 in Portuguese
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