chapéu
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,513
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
chapéu is aPortuguesenoun. It means: cobertura com copa e aba para a cabeça de homem Pronounced /ʃɐ.ˈpɛw/. It ranks #6,513 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with chau and chave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapéu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɐ.ˈpɛw/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for chapéu is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʃɐ.ˈpɛw/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,513 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chapéu, with forms such as "cahpéu", "cchapéu", and "chappéu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "chau", "chave", "chase", 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 chapéu, spelled C-H-A-P-É-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1cobertura com copa e aba para a cabeça de homem
- 2cobertura de variados feitios para a cabeça de mulher ou criança
- 3parte superior do cogumelo
- 4resguardo, abrigo
- 5peça cilíndrica e achatada presa à saia do cabrestante
- 6no futebol, lance em que um jogador faz com que a bola passe por cima de um adversário e a pegue do outro lado do mesmo
- 7ato de enganar, de logro
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahpéu,cchapéu,chappéu,chapué,chaépu,chhapéu,chpaéu,hcapéu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chapéu
Misspelling Variants of "chapéu"
Frequency rank: #6,513 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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