concha
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,285
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
concha is aPortuguesenoun. It means: invólucro calcário ou córneo de certos animais Pronounced /ˈkõ.ʃɐ/. Often confused with conta and cunha.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkõ.ʃɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for concha is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkõ.ʃɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,285 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 concha, with forms such as "cconcha", "cnocha", and "cocnha". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "conta", "cunha", "contra", 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 concha, spelled C-O-N-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1invólucro calcário ou córneo de certos animais
- 2colher para tirar sopa ou açúcar
- 3prato de balança
- 4a parte côncava das chaves que, nos instrumentos de sopro, fecham os orifícios
- 5peça de metal que se emprega nas gavetas, em substituição dos puxadores
- 6porca de madeira, em que volteia o fuso ou parafuso, nas antigas prensas de vara dos nossos lagares
- 7segmento do corpo feminino que engloba a externalidade da genitália, os lábios, pequenos lábios, clitóris, orifício vaginal e uretral
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconcha,cnocha,cocnha,concah,conccha,conchha,conhca,conncha,ocncha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concha
Misspelling Variants of "concha"
Frequency rank: #15,285 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: