contigo

//kõ.ˈt͡ʃi.ɡo̝// pron

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,738

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

contigo is aPortuguesepron. It means: em tua companhia, equivalente a com ti Pronounced /kõ.ˈt͡ʃi.ɡo̝/. It ranks #1,738 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with conto and contudo.

Key facts for contigo
PropertyValue
Headwordcontigo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPron
IPA/kõ.ˈt͡ʃi.ɡo̝/
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,738
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for contigo is 7 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kõ.ˈt͡ʃi.ɡo̝/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,738 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "em tua companhia, equivalente a com ti".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for contigo, with forms such as "ccontigo", "cnotigo", and "conitgo". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "conto", "contudo", "cortiço", 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 contigo, spelled C-O-N-T-I-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    em tua companhia, equivalente a com ti

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccontigo,cnotigo,conitgo,conntigo,contgio,contiggo,contiog,conttigo,cotnigo,ocntigo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contigo

Misspelling Variants of "contigo"

ccontigo8cnotigo7conitgo7conntigo8contgio7contiggo8contiog7conttigo8
Misspelling Variants of "contigo"

Frequency rank: #1,738 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contigo"?
"contigo" is spelled C-O-N-T-I-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is /kõ.ˈt͡ʃi.ɡo̝/.
What does "contigo" mean?
As a pron, "contigo" means: em tua companhia, equivalente a com ti
What words are commonly confused with "contigo"?
"contigo" is commonly confused with "conto", "contudo", "cortiço". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "contigo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "contigo" is /kõ.ˈt͡ʃi.ɡo̝/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "contigo" come from?
"contigo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.