aurinko
The verdict
“aurinko” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sol
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aurinko |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɑu.riŋ.ko̞/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aurinko” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for aurinko is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɑu.riŋ.ko̞/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for aurinko 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 aurinko, spelled A-U-R-I-N-K-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sol
- 2Sol, centro e principal astro do Sistema Solar
- 3sol, estrela central de algum outro sistema
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Using “aurinko”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-U-R-I-N-K-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɑu.riŋ.ko̞/ (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
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