ator
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,556
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ator is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pessoa que representa uma personagem no teatro ou no cinema Pronounced /a.ˈtoɾ/. It ranks #2,556 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with avô and att.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ator |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /a.ˈtoɾ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ator is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.ˈtoɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,556 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 ator, with forms such as "aotr", "atorr", and "atro". 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, "avô", "att", "auto", 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 ator, spelled A-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pessoa que representa uma personagem no teatro ou no cinema
- 2o que toma parte ativa num negócio, numa aventura
- 3enganador que sabe bem fingir
- 4pessoa que promove uma ação
- 5partícipe com influência e expressão em seara econômica e/ou cultural e/ou bélica em determinado contexto geográfico e/ou político e/ou histórico
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aotr,atorr,atro,attor,taor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ator
Misspelling Variants of "ator"
Frequency rank: #2,556 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Portuguese index: