potřebují
The verdict
“potřebují” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 3ª pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo de potřebovat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potřebují |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈpotr̝̊ɛbujiː/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “potřebují” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for potřebují is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpotr̝̊ɛbujiː/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3ª pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo de potřebovat".
No misspelling variants are generated for potřebují 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 potřebují, spelled P-O-T-Ř-E-B-U-J-Í, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 13ª pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo de potřebovat
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Using “potřebují”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-O-T-Ř-E-B-U-J-Í — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpotr̝̊ɛbujiː/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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