chuva

//'ʃu.vɐ// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,563

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

chuva is aPortuguesenoun. It means: fenômeno recorrente em que ocorre precipitação de água em estado líquido em volume maior ou igual a gotas Pronounced /'ʃu.vɐ/. It ranks #1,563 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cura and cuba.

Key facts for chuva
PropertyValue
Headwordchuva
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/'ʃu.vɐ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,563
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for chuva is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /'ʃu.vɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,563 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for chuva, with forms such as "cchuva", "chhuva", and "chuav". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "cura", "cuba", "cova", 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 chuva, spelled C-H-U-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    fenômeno recorrente em que ocorre precipitação de água em estado líquido em volume maior ou igual a gotas
  2. 2
    a água que cai das nuvens durante esse fenômeno
  3. 3
    grande quantidade de algo que é atirado ou cai como se fosse chuva
  4. 4
    torrente; fluxo maciço

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cchuva,chhuva,chuav,chuvva,chvua,cuhva,hcuva

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chuva

Misspelling Variants of "chuva"

cchuva6chhuva6chuav5chuvva6chvua5cuhva5hcuva5
Misspelling Variants of "chuva"

Frequency rank: #1,563 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chuva"?
"chuva" is spelled C-H-U-V-A. The IPA pronunciation is /'ʃu.vɐ/.
What does "chuva" mean?
As a noun, "chuva" means: fenômeno recorrente em que ocorre precipitação de água em estado líquido em volume maior ou igual a gotas
What words are commonly confused with "chuva"?
"chuva" is commonly confused with "cura", "cuba", "cova". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chuva"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chuva" is /'ʃu.vɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chuva" come from?
"chuva" 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.