alô

adv

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,874

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

alô is anPortugueseadv. It means: lá, alá, podendo indicar um lugar, um tempo, mais afastado que lá It ranks #4,874 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with As and ao.

Key facts for alô
PropertyValue
Headwordalô
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdv
Letters3
Frequency rank#4,874
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of alô in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for alô is 3 letters long, classified as anadv. Corpus data places it at rank #4,874 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "lá, alá, podendo indicar um lugar, um tempo, mais afastado que lá".

No misspelling variants are generated for alô in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", 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 alô, spelled A-L-Ô, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    lá, alá, podendo indicar um lugar, um tempo, mais afastado que lá

Frequency rank: #4,874 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alô"?
"alô" is spelled A-L-Ô.
What does "alô" mean?
As an adv, "alô" means: lá, alá, podendo indicar um lugar, um tempo, mais afastado que lá
What words are commonly confused with "alô"?
"alô" is commonly confused with "As", "ao", "ar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "alô" come from?
"alô" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.