aumento
/aw.ˈmẽ.tu/
The verdict
“aumento” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #929 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #929
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato ou efeito de aumentar; ampliação
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aumento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aw.ˈmẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aumento” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for aumento is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aw.ˈmẽ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #929 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ato ou efeito de aumentar; ampliação".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for aumento, with forms such as "amuento", "auemnto", and "aumennto". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ausente", "ameno", "atento", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is aumento, spelled A-U-M-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de aumentar; ampliação
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amuento,auemnto,aumennto,aumenot,aumentto,aumetno,aummento,aumneto,uamento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aumento - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “aumento”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-U-M-E-N-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aw.ˈmẽ.tu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ausente” - see the side-by-side comparison. aumento vs ausente
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.