abraço
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,952
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
abraço is aPortuguesenoun. It means: gesto de afeto no qual uma pessoa contorna com seus braços a outra pessoa, animal, objeto, etc., como forma de manifestar carinho, amizade, apoio, conforto, etc. Pronounced /aˈbɾa.su/. It ranks #3,952 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with arco and arão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abraço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aˈbɾa.su/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for abraço is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aˈbɾa.su/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,952 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for abraço, with forms such as "abarço", "abbraço", and "abraoç". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "arco", "arão", "arado", 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 abraço, spelled A-B-R-A-Ç-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1gesto de afeto no qual uma pessoa contorna com seus braços a outra pessoa, animal, objeto, etc., como forma de manifestar carinho, amizade, apoio, conforto, etc.
- 2forma amistosa de cumprimentar a outrem
- 3por extensão, demonstração de amizade, de afeto
- 4ato de juntar, unir
- 5órgão ou apêndice de algumas plantas que se enrola em alguma base para fixar-se enquanto crescem, como em certas trepadeiras, leguminosas, etc.
- 6elemento ornamental geralmente na forma de entrelaçamento de folhagens lavradas à volta da parte principal de uma coluna (fuste)
- 7forma de defesa ou ataque de alguns animais
- 8adeus; forma de despedida
- 9por extensão, forma de dizer que algo ou alguém ficou para trás
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abarço,abbraço,abraoç,abrraço,abrçao,arbaço,baraço
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abraço
Misspelling Variants of "abraço"
Frequency rank: #3,952 in Portuguese
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