cérebro
The verdict
“cérebro” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #2,471 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,471
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - órgão do corpo de vários animais, integrante do sistema nervoso; é responsável pelo controle de outros órgãos, via impulsos elétricos e pelo raciocínio; é protegido pelo crânio e composto por neurô...
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 | cérebro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cérebro” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cérebro is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #2,471 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cérebro, with forms such as "ccérebro", "créebro", and "céerbro". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cerro", "certeiro", "célebre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is cérebro, spelled C-É-R-E-B-R-O.
Definition
- 1órgão do corpo de vários animais, integrante do sistema nervoso; é responsável pelo controle de outros órgãos, via impulsos elétricos e pelo raciocínio; é protegido pelo crânio e composto por neurônios
- 2parte central de um sistema de processamento de dados
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccérebro,créebro,céerbro,cérbero,cérebbro,cérebor,cérebrro,cérerbo,cérrebro,écrebro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cérebro - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “cérebro”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-É-R-E-B-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “cerro” - see the side-by-side comparison. cérebro vs cerro
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.