adulto
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,656
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
adulto is anPortugueseadj. It means: diz-se do ser vivo que atingiu a maturidade do desenvolvimento fisiológico, intelectual e/ou emocional (no caso do ser humano, em torno dos vinte anos de idade) Pronounced /a.ˈduw.tu/ ouvir ^(fonte ?). It ranks #3,656 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with alto and auto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /a.ˈduw.tu/ ouvir ^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for adulto is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.ˈduw.tu/ ouvir ^(fonte ?). Corpus data places it at rank #3,656 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for adulto, with forms such as "addulto", "adluto", and "adullto". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "alto", "auto", "avulso", 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 adulto, spelled A-D-U-L-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1diz-se do ser vivo que atingiu a maturidade do desenvolvimento fisiológico, intelectual e/ou emocional (no caso do ser humano, em torno dos vinte anos de idade)
- 2diz-se do indivíduo que atingiu a maioridade definida de alguma forma, seja cultural, religiosa, legal etc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addulto,adluto,adullto,adulot,adultto,adutlo,audlto,daulto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adulto
Misspelling Variants of "adulto"
Frequency rank: #3,656 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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