comboio
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,275
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
comboio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: meio de transporte composto por um ou vários veículos ligados entre si, com a função de transportar pessoas ou carga sobre uma linha ou trilho, segundo uma rota previamente planejada Pronounced /kõ.ˈboj.ʊ/. It ranks #6,275 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with câmbio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comboio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.ˈboj.ʊ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for comboio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kõ.ˈboj.ʊ/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,275 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for comboio, with forms such as "ccomboio", "cmoboio", and "cobmoio". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "câmbio", 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 comboio, spelled C-O-M-B-O-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1meio de transporte composto por um ou vários veículos ligados entre si, com a função de transportar pessoas ou carga sobre uma linha ou trilho, segundo uma rota previamente planejada
- 2conjunto de veículos, animais de carga ou indivíduos que deslocam-se organizadamente de um ponto a outro, com ou sem carregamento
- 3transporte de munição, provisões e/ou equipamentos levados pelas tropas em uma campanha
- 4escolta de prisioneiros e/ou feridos em meio a uma guerra
- 5grupo de navios mercantes escoltado por belonaves
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomboio,cmoboio,cobmoio,combboio,combioo,combooi,commboio,comobio,ocmboio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comboio
Misspelling Variants of "comboio"
Frequency rank: #6,275 in Portuguese
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