carro
[ˈkäɦʊ]
The verdict
“carro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #550) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #550
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - veículo com a capacidade de se movimentar guiado por um motorista, geralmente com a finalidade de transportar pessoas
Corpus desk
Index PT-carro · carro · Portuguese
carro · rank #550 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #550
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH caminho
Nearest frequency peer: caminho (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “carro”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- acha
acha
99,454 corpus weight
- amanhã
amanhã
99,453 corpus weight
- caminho
caminho
99,452 corpus weight
- carro
carro
99,451 corpus weight
- deveria
deveria
99,450 corpus weight
- dezembro
dezembro
99,449 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “carro” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkäɦʊ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “carro”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for carro is neighbouring look-alikes ("caso", "coro", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkäɦʊ]. Frequency #550 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for carro, with forms such as "acrro", "caror", and "ccarro". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caso", "coro", "Ciro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is carro, spelled C-A-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1veículo com a capacidade de se movimentar guiado por um motorista, geralmente com a finalidade de transportar pessoas
- 2veículo simples de rodas para transportar pessoas ou carga
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrro
- caror
- ccarro
- craro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carro - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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