que

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for que is 3 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "quanto, quão grande, qual de".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for que in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "qui", "quem", "quer", 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 que, spelled Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.