CPU
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,128
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
CPU is aPortuguesenoun. It means: circuito interno de um computador que armazena, processa e controla a maior parte das operações Often confused with cu and cut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CPU |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for CPU is 3 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #21,128 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for CPU in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cu", "cut", "cry", 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 CPU, spelled C-P-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1circuito interno de um computador que armazena, processa e controla a maior parte das operações
- 2parte de um computador doméstico constituído por gabinete contendo em seu interior a maior parte dos dispositivos responsáveis pelo processamento de dados e gráficos
- 3rotina computacional que exerce controle de algum elemento de videojogo simulando o atuar de um videojogador
Frequency rank: #21,128 in Portuguese
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