Sudene

//suˈdẽ.ni// abbrev

The verdict

“Sudene” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #63,859 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an abbreviation.

#63,859
frequency rank, Portuguese
6
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: siglema composto pelas iniciais de Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste, órgão do governo federal brasileiro para lidar com a prevenção de estiagens no território que compreende os nove ...

Key facts for Sudene
PropertyValue
HeadwordSudene
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAbbreviation
IPA/suˈdẽ.ni/
Letters6
Frequency rank#63,859
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Sudene” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Sudene lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for Sudene is 6 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /suˈdẽ.ni/. Corpus data places it at rank #63,859 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "siglema composto pelas iniciais de Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste, órgão do governo federal brasileiro para lidar com a prevenção de estiagens no território que compreende os nove ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for Sudene 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 Sudene, spelled S-U-D-E-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    siglema composto pelas iniciais de Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste, órgão do governo federal brasileiro para lidar com a prevenção de estiagens no território que compreende os nove estados nordestinos e a região norte dos estados de Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo, criado em 1959 no governo Juscelino Kubitschek, extinto em 2001 e recriado em 2007

Frequency rank: #63,859 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sudene"?
"Sudene" is spelled S-U-D-E-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is /suˈdẽ.ni/.
What does "Sudene" mean?
As an abbreviation, "Sudene" means: siglema composto pelas iniciais de Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste, órgão do governo federal brasileiro para lidar com a prevenção de estiagens no território que compreende os nove ...
How do you pronounce "Sudene"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sudene" is /suˈdẽ.ni/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sudene" come from?
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Using “Sudene”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-U-D-E-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /suˈdẽ.ni/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.