casto
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#60,196
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
casto is anPortugueseadj. It means: que guarda castidade; que se abstém de prazeres sexuais Pronounced /ˈkaʃ.tu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˈkaʃ.tu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for casto is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkaʃ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #60,196 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for casto in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 casto, spelled C-A-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que guarda castidade; que se abstém de prazeres sexuais
- 2que guarda castidade; que se abstém de prazeres sexuais
- 3(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) puro, cândido, inocente
- 4(Derivação: sentido figurado) sem mistura ou mescla; puro
- 5(Derivação: sentido figurado) no domínio artístico, o que se caracteriza por certa pureza e reserva
- 6(Derivação: sentido figurado) recatado, pudico
- 7(Derivação: sentido figurado) que ainda não foi atingido ou tocado por coisas consideradas impuras; que se mantém à distância de impurezas ou impudicícias
- 8(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) isento, intacto
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #60,196 in Portuguese
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