abuso

//ɐ.ˈbu.zu// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,607

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

abuso is aPortuguesenoun. It means: comportamento inadequado e excessivo Pronounced /ɐ.ˈbu.zu/. It ranks #4,607 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with auto and also.

Key facts for abuso
PropertyValue
Headwordabuso
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ɐ.ˈbu.zu/
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,607
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for abuso is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.ˈbu.zu/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,607 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "comportamento inadequado e excessivo".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for abuso, with forms such as "abbuso", "absuo", and "abuos". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "auto", "also", "ânus", 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 abuso, spelled A-B-U-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    comportamento inadequado e excessivo

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abbuso,absuo,abuos,abusso,aubso,bauso

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abuso

Misspelling Variants of "abuso"

abbuso6absuo5abuos5abusso6aubso5bauso5
Misspelling Variants of "abuso"

Frequency rank: #4,607 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abuso"?
"abuso" is spelled A-B-U-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ɐ.ˈbu.zu/.
What does "abuso" mean?
As a noun, "abuso" means: comportamento inadequado e excessivo
What words are commonly confused with "abuso"?
"abuso" is commonly confused with "auto", "also", "ânus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "abuso"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abuso" is /ɐ.ˈbu.zu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abuso" come from?
"abuso" 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.