apelido
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,274
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
apelido is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome pessoal que provém da tradição familiar; nome de família; sobrenome Pronounced /ɐ.pɨ.ˈli.du/. It ranks #5,274 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with apelo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apelido |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ.pɨ.ˈli.du/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for apelido is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.pɨ.ˈli.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,274 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for apelido, with forms such as "aeplido", "apeildo", and "apeldio". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "apelo", 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 apelido, spelled A-P-E-L-I-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome pessoal que provém da tradição familiar; nome de família; sobrenome
- 2diminutivo ou nome informal de alguém; alcunha
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aeplido,apeildo,apeldio,apeliddo,apeliod,apellido,apleido,appelido,paelido
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for apelido
Misspelling Variants of "apelido"
Frequency rank: #5,274 in Portuguese
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