arrepio
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,501
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
arrepio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: tremor passageiro causado por frio ou medo Pronounced /ɐ.Rɨ.ˈpi.u/. Often confused with arroio and aurélio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrepio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ.Rɨ.ˈpi.u/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for arrepio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.Rɨ.ˈpi.u/. Corpus data places it at rank #20,501 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrepio, with forms such as "arepio", "arerpio", and "arreipo". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "arroio", "aurélio", "armênio", 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 arrepio, spelled A-R-R-E-P-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tremor passageiro causado por frio ou medo
- 2estado no qual por contração, a pele fica com poros dilatados e os pelos que dela pendem ficam eriçados por diferentes estímulos, como o sexual como pelo toque, pela fala próxima aos ouvidos ou ainda pelo estímulo do medo
- 3medo
- 4estado no qual os pelos ou cabelos estão eriçados, na direção contrária aos fios
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arepio,arerpio,arreipo,arrepoi,arreppio,arrpeio,rarepio
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Misspelling Variants of "arrepio"
Frequency rank: #20,501 in Portuguese
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