comando

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,425

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

comando is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ação de comandar, governar It ranks #1,425 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cuando and comenda.

Key facts for comando
PropertyValue
Headwordcomando
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,425
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for comando is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,425 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for comando, with forms such as "ccomando", "cmoando", and "coamndo". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cuando", "comenda", "comandar", 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 comando, spelled C-O-M-A-N-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ação de comandar, governar
  2. 2
    autoridade
  3. 3
    o topo de hierarquia em qualquer conjunto de tropas
  4. 4
    tropas de elite existentes em quase todos os países; cada um dos elementos destas tropas
  5. 5
    ação ou expressão que é interpretada como ordem
  6. 6
    dispositivo que, à distância, faz funcionar alguns aparelhos; o mesmo que telecomando

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccomando,cmoando,coamndo,comadno,comanddo,comanndo,comanod,commando,comnado,ocmando

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comando

Misspelling Variants of "comando"

ccomando8cmoando7coamndo7comadno7comanddo8comanndo8comanod7commando8
Misspelling Variants of "comando"

Frequency rank: #1,425 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comando"?
"comando" is spelled C-O-M-A-N-D-O.
What does "comando" mean?
As a noun, "comando" means: ação de comandar, governar
What words are commonly confused with "comando"?
"comando" is commonly confused with "cuando", "comenda", "comandar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "comando" come from?
"comando" 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.