caralho

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for caralho is 7 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐɾˈɐʎu/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,966 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressa surpresa, espanto, indignação, raiva, elogio".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for caralho, with forms such as "acralho", "caarlho", and "carahlo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cavalo", "carinho", "catalão", 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 caralho, spelled C-A-R-A-L-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.