come on
The verdict
“come on” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as an interjection — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: vai!, vamos!; expressão de encorajamento
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | come on |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “come on” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for come on is 7 letters long, classified as an interjection. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for come on in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 come on, spelled C-O-M-E- -O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vai!, vamos!; expressão de encorajamento
- 2expressão de descrença
- 3apresse-se!, anda logo!
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Using “come on”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-M-E- -O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: