cérebro

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,471

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

cérebro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: 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... It ranks #2,471 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cerro and certeiro.

Key facts for cérebro
PropertyValue
Headwordcérebro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,471
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cérebro in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cérebro is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cérebro, with forms such as "ccérebro", "créebro", and "céerbro". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cerro", "certeiro", "célebre", 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 cérebro, spelled C-É-R-E-B-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 neurônios
  2. 2
    parte 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cérebro

Misspelling Variants of "cérebro"

ccérebro8créebro7céerbro7cérbero7cérebbro8cérebor7cérebrro8cérerbo7
Misspelling Variants of "cérebro"

Frequency rank: #2,471 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cérebro"?
"cérebro" is spelled C-É-R-E-B-R-O.
What does "cérebro" mean?
As a noun, "cérebro" means: 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...
What words are commonly confused with "cérebro"?
"cérebro" is commonly confused with "cerro", "certeiro", "célebre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "cérebro" come from?
"cérebro" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.