cérebro
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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
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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"
Frequency rank: #2,471 in Portuguese
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