aborto

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,688

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

aborto is aPortuguesenoun. It means: remoção ou expulsão prematura de um embrião ou feto do útero, resultando na sua morte ou sendo por esta causada It ranks #4,688 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with about and aorta.

Key facts for aborto
PropertyValue
Headwordaborto
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,688
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aborto in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for aborto is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #4,688 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "remoção ou expulsão prematura de um embrião ou feto do útero, resultando na sua morte ou sendo por esta causada".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for aborto, with forms such as "abborto", "aborot", and "aborrto". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "about", "aorta", "agosto", 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 aborto, spelled A-B-O-R-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    remoção ou expulsão prematura de um embrião ou feto do útero, resultando na sua morte ou sendo por esta causada

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abborto,aborot,aborrto,abortto,abotro,abroto,aobrto,baorto

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aborto

Misspelling Variants of "aborto"

abborto7aborot6aborrto7abortto7abotro6abroto6aobrto6baorto6
Misspelling Variants of "aborto"

Frequency rank: #4,688 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aborto"?
"aborto" is spelled A-B-O-R-T-O.
What does "aborto" mean?
As a noun, "aborto" means: remoção ou expulsão prematura de um embrião ou feto do útero, resultando na sua morte ou sendo por esta causada
What words are commonly confused with "aborto"?
"aborto" is commonly confused with "about", "aorta", "agosto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "aborto" come from?
"aborto" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.