auréola

//aw.ˈɾɛ.u.lɐ// noun

The verdict

“auréola” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #54,795 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#54,795
frequency rank, Portuguese
7
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: círculo dourado ou peça de metal circular com que pintores e escultores circundam muitas vezes a cabeça de Cristo, da Virgem Maria, dos santos, anjos, etc., representando uma espécie de resplendor ...

Key facts for auréola
PropertyValue
Headwordauréola
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/aw.ˈɾɛ.u.lɐ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#54,795
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “auréola” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). auréola lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for auréola is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aw.ˈɾɛ.u.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #54,795 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "círculo dourado ou peça de metal circular com que pintores e escultores circundam muitas vezes a cabeça de Cristo, da Virgem Maria, dos santos, anjos, etc., representando uma espécie de resplendor ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for auréola in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 auréola, spelled A-U-R-É-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    círculo dourado ou peça de metal circular com que pintores e escultores circundam muitas vezes a cabeça de Cristo, da Virgem Maria, dos santos, anjos, etc., representando uma espécie de resplendor em suas imagens

Frequency rank: #54,795 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "auréola"?
"auréola" is spelled A-U-R-É-O-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is /aw.ˈɾɛ.u.lɐ/.
What does "auréola" mean?
As a noun, "auréola" means: círculo dourado ou peça de metal circular com que pintores e escultores circundam muitas vezes a cabeça de Cristo, da Virgem Maria, dos santos, anjos, etc., representando uma espécie de resplendor ...
How do you pronounce "auréola"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auréola" is /aw.ˈɾɛ.u.lɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auréola" come from?
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Using “auréola”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-U-R-É-O-L-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /aw.ˈɾɛ.u.lɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Nearby Portuguese words

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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.