aço
The verdict
“aço” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #4,209 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,209
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: liga composta principalmente de ferro e carbono utilizada para a fabricação de utensílios, armas, veículos e uma infinidade de outros objetos da vida moderna
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈa.su/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aço” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for aço is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈa.su/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,209 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "liga composta principalmente de ferro e carbono utilizada para a fabricação de utensílios, armas, veículos e uma infinidade de outros objetos da vida moderna".
No misspelling variants are generated for aço in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. 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 aço, spelled A-Ç-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1liga composta principalmente de ferro e carbono utilizada para a fabricação de utensílios, armas, veículos e uma infinidade de outros objetos da vida moderna
This word in other languages
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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Using “aço”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-Ç-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈa.su/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “As” — see the side-by-side comparison. aço vs As
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
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