amarelo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,180
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
amarelo is anPortugueseadj. It means: que tem cor do ouro, do açafrão, do limão, da gema do ovo, do enxofre, do topázio, entre outros; que é da cor que se situa, no espectro solar, entre o verde e o alaranjado Pronounced /ɐ.mɐ.ˈɾɛ.lu/. It ranks #3,180 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with amargo and amável.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amarelo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ɐ.mɐ.ˈɾɛ.lu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for amarelo is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.mɐ.ˈɾɛ.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,180 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for amarelo, with forms such as "aamrelo", "amaerlo", and "amarello". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "amargo", "amável", "aparelho", 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 amarelo, spelled A-M-A-R-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que tem cor do ouro, do açafrão, do limão, da gema do ovo, do enxofre, do topázio, entre outros; que é da cor que se situa, no espectro solar, entre o verde e o alaranjado
- 2que está pálido, decorado; que não tem boa cor
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aamrelo,amaerlo,amarello,amareol,amarleo,amarrelo,ammarelo,amraelo,maarelo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amarelo
Misspelling Variants of "amarelo"
Frequency rank: #3,180 in Portuguese
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