anjo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,055
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
anjo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: segundo a mitologia cristã, criatura celestial puramente espiritual que atua como mensageiro entre Deus e os homens Pronounced /ˈɐ̃.ʒu/. It ranks #3,055 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ao and ano.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anjo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɐ̃.ʒu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for anjo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɐ̃.ʒu/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,055 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for anjo, with forms such as "ajno", "anjjo", and "annjo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ao", "ano", "ato", 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 anjo, spelled A-N-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1segundo a mitologia cristã, criatura celestial puramente espiritual que atua como mensageiro entre Deus e os homens
- 2pessoa de grande bondade, virtude e inocência
- 3criança sossegada, bem comportada
- 4criança morta
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajno,anjjo,annjo,anoj,najo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anjo
Misspelling Variants of "anjo"
Frequency rank: #3,055 in Portuguese
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