sentem
The verdict
“sentem” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #2,806 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #2,806
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - terceira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo sentir
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sentem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sentem” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sentem is 6 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #2,806 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sentem, with forms such as "esntem", "senetm", and "senntem". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sete", "serem", "senti", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is sentem, spelled S-E-N-T-E-M.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo do verbo sentir
- 2terceira pessoa do plural do presente do modo subjuntivo do verbo sentar
- 3terceira pessoa do plural do imperativo afirmativo do verbo sentar
- 4terceira pessoa do plural do imperativo negativo do verbo sentar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esntem,senetm,senntem,sentemm,sentme,senttem,setnem,snetem,ssentem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sentem - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sentem”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-E-N-T-E-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “sete” - see the side-by-side comparison. sentem vs sete
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.