coronel
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,268
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
coronel is aPortuguesenoun. It means: patente militar, no Brasil entre o tenente-coronel e o general (abreviação: cel.) Pronounced /ku.ɾu.ˈnɛɫ/. It ranks #2,268 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cordel and córnea.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coronel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ku.ɾu.ˈnɛɫ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for coronel is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ku.ɾu.ˈnɛɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,268 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 coronel, with forms such as "ccoronel", "coornel", and "cornoel". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cordel", "córnea", 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 coronel, spelled C-O-R-O-N-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1patente militar, no Brasil entre o tenente-coronel e o general (abreviação: cel.)
- 2patriarca e chefe político da zona rural, principalmente em Minas Gerais e no Nordeste
- 3homem que gasta dinheiro no sustento de prostitutas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoronel,coornel,cornoel,coroenl,coronell,coronle,coronnel,corronel,croonel,ocronel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for coronel
Misspelling Variants of "coronel"
Frequency rank: #2,268 in Portuguese
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