reggae

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for reggae is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #9,567 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "estilo de música popular jamaicana surgido na década de 1960 que mistura blues, calipso e roquenrol, caracterizado por um ritmo sincopado forte e letras de protesto social".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for reggae, with forms such as "erggae", "regae", and "regage". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "regra", "régua", "régia", 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 reggae, spelled R-E-G-G-A-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.