canal
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#736
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
canal is aPortuguesenoun. It means: meio usado para transportar uma mensagem do emissor ao receptor It ranks #736 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with casa and cara.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for canal is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #736 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for canal, with forms such as "acnal", "caanl", and "canall". 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, "casa", "cara", "cena", 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 canal, spelled C-A-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1meio usado para transportar uma mensagem do emissor ao receptor
- 2faixa do espectro de radio-frequência com largura de 6 MHz utilizado para difusão de sinais de TV
- 3vala artificial, que pode ou não estar revestida de material que lhe dê sustentação e que se destina à passagem da água
- 4tubo por onde passam gases e líquidos
- 5leito de rio
- 6local onde duas margens opostas do mar são próximas
- 7meio de se conseguir algo
- 8tratamento dentário que consiste na retirada da polpa do dente, que é um tecido encontrado em sua parte interna
- 9caminho do gado, da rês
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnal,caanl,canall,canla,cannal,ccanal,cnaal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for canal
Misspelling Variants of "canal"
Frequency rank: #736 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: