âncora
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,374
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
âncora is aPortuguesenoun. It means: instrumento náutico que permite a um navio ficar parado num determinado ponto do mar, sem no entanto ficar à deriva Often confused with Angola and aurora.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | âncora |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for âncora is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #11,374 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for âncora, with forms such as "nâcora", "âcnora", and "ânccora". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Angola", "aurora", "Andorra", 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 âncora, spelled Â-N-C-O-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1instrumento náutico que permite a um navio ficar parado num determinado ponto do mar, sem no entanto ficar à deriva
- 2no HTML, etiqueta que define o destino a que um linque clicável deslocará o «viewport» à determinada parte de uma página
- 3principal apresentador de um programa jornalístico ou de esportes
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nâcora,âcnora,ânccora,âncoar,âncorra,âncroa,ânncora,ânocra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for âncora
Misspelling Variants of "âncora"
Frequency rank: #11,374 in Portuguese
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