barro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,961
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
barro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a matéria-prima para a cerâmica e a olaria Pronounced /ˈba.Ru/. It ranks #9,961 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with Bart and brio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈba.Ru/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for barro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈba.Ru/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,961 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for barro, with forms such as "abrro", "baro", and "baror". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bart", "brio", "bordo", 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 barro, spelled B-A-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1a matéria-prima para a cerâmica e a olaria
- 2terra amansável
- 3excremento, fezes
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abrro,baro,baror,bbarro,braro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for barro
Misspelling Variants of "barro"
Frequency rank: #9,961 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index: