aumento

//aw.ˈmẽ.tu// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#929

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

aumento is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de aumentar; ampliação Pronounced /aw.ˈmẽ.tu/. It ranks #929 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ausente and ameno.

Key facts for aumento
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Headwordaumento
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/aw.ˈmẽ.tu/
Letters7
Frequency rank#929
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aumento in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for aumento is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for aumento, with forms such as "amuento", "auemnto", and "aumennto". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ausente", "ameno", "atento", 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 aumento, spelled A-U-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ato ou efeito de aumentar; ampliação

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amuento,auemnto,aumennto,aumenot,aumentto,aumetno,aummento,aumneto,uamento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aumento

Misspelling Variants of "aumento"

amuento7auemnto7aumennto8aumenot7aumentto8aumetno7aummento8aumneto7
Misspelling Variants of "aumento"

Frequency rank: #929 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aumento"?
"aumento" is spelled A-U-M-E-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is /aw.ˈmẽ.tu/.
What does "aumento" mean?
As a noun, "aumento" means: ato ou efeito de aumentar; ampliação
What words are commonly confused with "aumento"?
"aumento" is commonly confused with "ausente", "ameno", "atento". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aumento"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aumento" is /aw.ˈmẽ.tu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aumento" come from?
"aumento" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.