A
Letters
1 characters
Frequency Rank
#2
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
A is anPortugueseadj. It means: assinala o primeiro elemento de uma série na qual estes são distinguidos e ordenados em uma sequência alfabética Pronounced /a/. It ranks #2 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with As and ao.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | A |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /a/ |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #2 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for A is 1 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a/. Corpus data places it at rank #2 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for A 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", 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 A, spelled A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1assinala o primeiro elemento de uma série na qual estes são distinguidos e ordenados em uma sequência alfabética
- 2assinala qualidade superior, muita importância ou um alto valor monetário
- 3assinala, na escala socioeconômica, a classe social mais elevada em relação ao poder aquisitivo
Frequency rank: #2 in Portuguese
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