ajoelhar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,514
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ajoelhar is aPortugueseverb. It means: (intransitivo) dobrar os joelhos e pô-los no chão Pronounced /ɐ.ʒwɨ.ˈʎaɾ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ajoelhar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.ʒwɨ.ˈʎaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ajoelhar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.ʒwɨ.ˈʎaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #22,514 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ajoelhar, with forms such as "ajeolhar", "ajjoelhar", and "ajoehlar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ajoelhar, spelled A-J-O-E-L-H-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(intransitivo) dobrar os joelhos e pô-los no chão
- 2(transitivo) ser submisso a; tornar alguém submisso
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajeolhar,ajjoelhar,ajoehlar,ajoelahr,ajoelharr,ajoelhhar,ajoelhra,ajoellhar,ajolehar,aojelhar,jaoelhar
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Misspelling Variants of "ajoelhar"
Frequency rank: #22,514 in Portuguese
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