close

noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,457

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

close is aPortuguesenoun. It means: tomada realizada com um dispositivo filmador ou fotográfico em que se enche o enquadramento com o objeto filmado ou fotografado através do zum ou aproximando o dispositivo filmador ou fotográfico It ranks #9,457 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cos and core.

Key facts for close
PropertyValue
Headwordclose
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,457
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for close is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #9,457 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 close, with forms such as "cclose", "cllose", and "cloes". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cos", "core", "cone", 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 close, spelled C-L-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    tomada realizada com um dispositivo filmador ou fotográfico em que se enche o enquadramento com o objeto filmado ou fotografado através do zum ou aproximando o dispositivo filmador ou fotográfico
  2. 2
    observada, olhada

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cclose,cllose,cloes,closse,clsoe,colse,lcose

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for close

Misspelling Variants of "close"

cclose6cllose6cloes5closse6clsoe5colse5lcose5
Misspelling Variants of "close"

Frequency rank: #9,457 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "close"?
"close" is spelled C-L-O-S-E.
What does "close" mean?
As a noun, "close" means: tomada realizada com um dispositivo filmador ou fotográfico em que se enche o enquadramento com o objeto filmado ou fotografado através do zum ou aproximando o dispositivo filmador ou fotográfico
What words are commonly confused with "close"?
"close" is commonly confused with "cos", "core", "cone". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "close" come from?
"close" 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.