cego
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,606
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cego is anPortugueseadj. It means: que não vê; desprovido de visão Pronounced /ˈsɛ.gu/. It ranks #5,606 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with co and céu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cego |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˈsɛ.gu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cego is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɛ.gu/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,606 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cego, with forms such as "ccego", "ceggo", and "ceog". 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", "céu", "cem", 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 cego, spelled C-E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que não vê; desprovido de visão
- 2que impede o uso da razão
- 3irracional, alucinado, desvairado
- 4absoluto, ilimitado
- 5não afiado (diz-se de instrumento de corte como faca)
- 6que se desgasta com facilidade
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccego,ceggo,ceog,cgeo,ecgo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cego
Misspelling Variants of "cego"
Frequency rank: #5,606 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: