ágio
/ˈaʒju/
The verdict
“ágio” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #76,022 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #76,022
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - lucro obtido em operações de câmbio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ágio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaʒju/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ágio” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ágio is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈaʒju/. Corpus data places it at rank #76,022 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ágio, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ágio, spelled Á-G-I-O.
Definition
- 1lucro obtido em operações de câmbio.
- 2valor pago acima do valor nominal de algo.
- 3diferença que o comprador paga a mais sobre o valor nominal dum título (de acordo com o Ciberdúvidas).
- 4diferença entre a cotação da moeda de um país e a de outro (de acordo com o Ciberdúvidas).
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 “ágio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is Á-G-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈaʒju/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.