whenever
/wəˈnɛvɚ/
The verdict
“whenever” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,469 among 110 “W” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,469
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sempre que, toda vez que
Corpus desk
Index PT-whenever · whenever · Portuguese
whenever · rank #56,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,469
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH vulcânico
Nearest frequency peer: vulcânico (-7 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “whenever”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- unicorn
unicorn
43,557 corpus weight
- Valdomiro
Valdomiro
43,553 corpus weight
- volúpia
volúpia
43,540 corpus weight
- vulcânico
vulcânico
43,539 corpus weight
- whenever
whenever
43,532 corpus weight
- admissibili…
admissibilidade
43,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “whenever” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whenever |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /wəˈnɛvɚ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “whenever” em português
Rare enough to double-check
whenever is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,469 among 110 “W” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /wəˈnɛvɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sempre que, toda vez que".
Zero misspellings are on record for whenever in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 whenever, spelled W-H-E-N-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1sempre que, toda vez que
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how whenever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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