circo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,717
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
circo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: em Roma, recinto onde se realizavam jogos para entretenimento público; o conjunto dos jogos Pronounced /ˈsirku/. It ranks #5,717 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with coco and coro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsirku/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for circo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsirku/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,717 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 circo, with forms such as "ccirco", "cicro", and "circco". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coco", "coro", "Ciro", 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 circo, spelled C-I-R-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1em Roma, recinto onde se realizavam jogos para entretenimento público; o conjunto dos jogos
- 2espetáculo, geralmente ambulante e realizado numa tenda circular, composto de palhaços, acrobacia, exibições de animais
- 3grande azáfama, atrapalhação real ou aparente
- 4depressão profunda em região montanhosa, com forma de semicírculo, servindo geralmente de leito para lagos; o nome "circo" provém da forma de semicírculo; chamado também de circo glacial
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccirco,cicro,circco,ciroc,cirrco,crico,icrco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for circo
Misspelling Variants of "circo"
Frequency rank: #5,717 in Portuguese
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