auto
/ˈaw.tu/
The verdict
“auto” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,421) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,421
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - solenidade; ação pública
Corpus desk
Index PT-auto · auto · Portuguese
auto · rank #1,421 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,421
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH Bahia
Nearest frequency peer: Bahia (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “auto”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ótimo
ótimo
98,584 corpus weight
- apresentar
apresentar
98,582 corpus weight
- auto
auto
98,580 corpus weight
- Bahia
Bahia
98,579 corpus weight
- cheio
cheio
98,577 corpus weight
- comando
comando
98,576 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “auto” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | auto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaw.tu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “auto”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for auto is neighbouring look-alikes ("avô", "Autor", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈaw.tu/. Frequency #1,421 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for auto, with forms such as "atuo", "auot", and "autto". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avô", "Autor", "ao", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is auto, spelled A-U-T-O.
Definition
- 1solenidade; ação pública
- 2narração escrita e autenticada de qualquer ato
- 3composição dramática nascida na Idade Média com argumento bíblico ou alegórico
- 4ato; ação; feito
- 5abreviatura de automóvel
- 6momento; instante
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuo
- auot
- autto
- uato
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of auto - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "auto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).