contato
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,160
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
contato is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o fato de contactar It ranks #1,160 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with conto and contudo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contato |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for contato is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,160 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for contato, with forms such as "ccontato", "cnotato", and "conatto". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "conto", "contudo", "contigo", 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 contato, spelled C-O-N-T-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o fato de contactar
- 2o fato de um corpo estar tocando em outro
- 3pessoa que age como intermediário entre duas outras
- 4ativação que põe em funcionamento o motor de automóvel
- 5peça que funciona como circuito que ao ser fechado faz com que o automóvel em relação ao seu motor fique ligado
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontato,cnotato,conatto,conntato,contaot,contatto,conttao,conttato,cotnato,ocntato
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contato
Misspelling Variants of "contato"
Frequency rank: #1,160 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: