cheiro
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,083
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
cheiro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: odor, aroma Pronounced /ˈʃɐj.ɾu/. It ranks #2,083 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with Ciro and cher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃɐj.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cheiro is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʃɐj.ɾu/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,083 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cheiro, with forms such as "ccheiro", "cehiro", and "cheior". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Ciro", "cher", "choro", 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 cheiro, spelled C-H-E-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1odor, aroma
- 2toque com a face, em especial os lábios e o nariz, em que se ventila aspirando sobretudo pela narina o ar bem próximo da pele doutra pessoa, costumeiramente no pescoço
- 3afago simbólico em forma de palavra cheiro pronunciada equivalente em ternura a um cheiro físico dado
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccheiro,cehiro,cheior,cheirro,cherio,chheiro,chiero,hceiro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cheiro
Misspelling Variants of "cheiro"
Frequency rank: #2,083 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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