alemão
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,348
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
alemão is anPortugueseadj. It means: natural da Alemanha Pronounced /a.le.ˈmãw/. It ranks #2,348 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with alma and alusão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alemão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /a.le.ˈmãw/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for alemão is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.le.ˈmãw/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,348 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for alemão, with forms such as "aelmão", "alemmão", and "alemoã". 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 also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "alma", "alusão", "antemão", 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 alemão, spelled A-L-E-M-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1natural da Alemanha
- 2relativo à língua alemã
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aelmão,alemmão,alemoã,aleãmo,allemão,almeão,laemão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alemão
Misspelling Variants of "alemão"
Frequency rank: #2,348 in Portuguese
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