calor

//kɐ.ˈloɾ// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,839

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

calor is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sensação experimentada em um ambiente aquecido ou ao tocar um objeto quente Pronounced /kɐ.ˈloɾ/. It ranks #1,839 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cor and cão.

Key facts for calor
PropertyValue
Headwordcalor
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kɐ.ˈloɾ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,839
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for calor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.ˈloɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,839 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 calor, with forms such as "aclor", "callor", and "calorr". 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, "cor", "cão", "car", 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 calor, spelled C-A-L-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sensação experimentada em um ambiente aquecido ou ao tocar um objeto quente
  2. 2
    qualidade do que está quente
  3. 3
    animação
  4. 4
    cordialidade
  5. 5
    energia térmica que flui de um corpo para outro em virtude da diferença de temperatura entre eles; energia na forma de calor pode entrar (+) ou sair (-) de um corpo, mas calor não pode ser adicionado ou removido de um corpo, pois nenhum corpo possui calor (os corpos possuem energia interna); é medido em calorias ou joules
  6. 6
    quantidade de energia transferida entre um sistema e sua vizinhança não em virtude da variação do volume ou do movimento da fronteira que os separa (trabalho), mas sim através da citada fronteira; a fronteira que permite a existência de calor é denominada fronteira diabática; a que não permite, fronteira adiabática
  7. 7
    em acordo com a primeira lei da termodinâmica (ΔU=Q- Tau ), uma das formas (Q) de se alterar a energia interna (U) de um sistema; a outra forma dá-se via trabalho ( Tau )
  8. 8
    pressão adversária aguda que coloca uma equipe em complicação defensiva de eminente marcação de ponto em seu desfavor

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aclor,callor,calorr,caolr,ccalor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calor

Misspelling Variants of "calor"

aclor5callor6calorr6caolr5ccalor6
Misspelling Variants of "calor"

Frequency rank: #1,839 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "calor"?
"calor" is spelled C-A-L-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is /kɐ.ˈloɾ/.
What does "calor" mean?
As a noun, "calor" means: sensação experimentada em um ambiente aquecido ou ao tocar um objeto quente
What words are commonly confused with "calor"?
"calor" is commonly confused with "cor", "cão", "car". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "calor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "calor" is /kɐ.ˈloɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "calor" come from?
"calor" 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.