cloro
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,802
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cloro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elemento químico de símbolo Cl, possui o número atômico 17 e massa atômica relativa 35,453; é encontrado na natureza somente em compostos com outros elementos, como o cloreto de sódio ou o cloreto ... Pronounced /ˈkłɔru/. Often confused with cor and como.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkłɔru/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cloro is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkłɔru/. Corpus data places it at rank #18,802 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cloro, with forms such as "ccloro", "clloro", and "clorro". 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, "cor", "como", "copo", 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 cloro, spelled C-L-O-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo Cl, possui o número atômico 17 e massa atômica relativa 35,453; é encontrado na natureza somente em compostos com outros elementos, como o cloreto de sódio ou o cloreto de potássio; é um gás, na temperatura ambiente, extremamente tóxico; utilizado como germicida padrão para o tratamento de água, na fabricação de papéis, derivados de petróleo, medicamentos, tintas, solvente e plásticos
- 2nome comercial de substância sólida, geralmente vendida em tabletes, para tratamento de piscinas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccloro,clloro,clorro,clroo,lcoro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cloro
Misspelling Variants of "cloro"
Frequency rank: #18,802 in Portuguese
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