aro
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,868
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: caixilho de madeira para os vãos das portas e janelas Pronounced /ˈa.ɾu/. Often confused with As and at.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈa.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for aro is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈa.ɾu/. Corpus data places it at rank #22,868 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for aro in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "at", "av", 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 aro, spelled A-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1caixilho de madeira para os vãos das portas e janelas
- 2arco; argola; círculo; anel; anilha
- 3batida no anel da cesta quicada ou rolada para fora sem passar por dentro da circunferência que determina o ponto
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #22,868 in Portuguese
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Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Portuguese index: