pente
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,363
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pente is aPortuguesenoun. It means: objeto usado para pentear o cabelo Pronounced /ˈpẽ.tɨ/. Often confused with pote and pepe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpẽ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pente is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpẽ.tɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #16,363 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pente, with forms such as "epnte", "penet", and "pennte". 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, "pote", "pepe", "pont", 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 pente, spelled P-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1objeto usado para pentear o cabelo
- 2parte de uma arma automática onde se colocam as balas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epnte,penet,pennte,pentte,petne,pnete,ppente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pente
Misspelling Variants of "pente"
Frequency rank: #16,363 in Portuguese
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