contrabaixo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for contrabaixo is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kõ.tɾɐ.ˈbaj.ʃu/. Corpus data places it at rank #35,513 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "cordofone tocado ao friccionar um arco de crina contra as cordas ou ainda pinçando-as com os dedos; dentre as cordas da orquestra, é o instrumento maior e de registro mais grave".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for contrabaixo, with forms such as "ccontrabaixo", "cnotrabaixo", and "conntrabaixo". 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, "contrabando", 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 contrabaixo, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-I-X-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.