caos
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,128
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
caos is aPortuguesenoun. It means: espaço limitado e amorfo que precedeu à criação do cosmo Pronounced /ˈkaws/. It ranks #4,128 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with co and com.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaws/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for caos is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkaws/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,128 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for caos, with forms such as "acos", "caoss", and "ccaos". 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, "co", "com", "cor", 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 caos, spelled C-A-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1espaço limitado e amorfo que precedeu à criação do cosmo
- 2confusão, desordem
- 3na tradição platônica, o estado geral desordenado e indiferenciado dos elementos do universo antes do surgimento do demiurgo
- 4estado que alguns sistemas dinâmicos possuem cujo comportamento é tão imprevisível que parece ser completamente aleatório, devido a pequenas mudanças causarem alterações drásticas no sistema como um todo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acos,caoss,ccaos,coas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caos
Misspelling Variants of "caos"
Frequency rank: #4,128 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: