alimento
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,704
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
alimento is aPortuguesenoun. It means: substância destinada ao consumo de seres vivos heterótrofos, com o fito de prover energia e material para o crescimento Pronounced /a.li.ˈmẽ.tu/. It ranks #5,704 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with aumento and alimentar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alimento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /a.li.ˈmẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for alimento is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.li.ˈmẽ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,704 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for alimento, with forms such as "ailmento", "aliemnto", and "alimennto". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "aumento", "alimentar", "adiamento", 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 alimento, spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1substância destinada ao consumo de seres vivos heterótrofos, com o fito de prover energia e material para o crescimento
- 2o conjunto de substâncias normalmente ingeridas por uma pessoa ou animal
- 3provimentos destinados ao consumo e satisfação de necessidades fisiológicas de um indivíduo (P.e., pensão alimentícia)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ailmento,aliemnto,alimennto,alimenot,alimentto,alimetno,alimmento,alimneto,allimento,almiento,laimento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alimento
Misspelling Variants of "alimento"
Frequency rank: #5,704 in Portuguese
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