cujo

pron

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,638

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cujo is aPortuguesepron. It means: relaciona dois substantivos, um antecedente e outro consequente, sendo este último possuidor de algo (qualidade, condição, sentimento, ser etc.) designado pelo primeiro; equivale a de que, de quem,... It ranks #1,638 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cut and cum.

Key facts for cujo
PropertyValue
Headwordcujo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPron
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,638
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cujo is 4 letters long, classified as apron. Corpus data places it at rank #1,638 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relaciona dois substantivos, um antecedente e outro consequente, sendo este último possuidor de algo (qualidade, condição, sentimento, ser etc.) designado pelo primeiro; equivale a de que, de quem,...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cujo, with forms such as "ccujo", "cjuo", and "cujjo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "cum", "cura", 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 cujo, spelled C-U-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    relaciona dois substantivos, um antecedente e outro consequente, sendo este último possuidor de algo (qualidade, condição, sentimento, ser etc.) designado pelo primeiro; equivale a de que, de quem, do/da qual, dos/das quais

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccujo,cjuo,cujjo,cuoj,ucjo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cujo

Misspelling Variants of "cujo"

ccujo5cjuo4cujjo5cuoj4ucjo4
Misspelling Variants of "cujo"

Frequency rank: #1,638 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cujo"?
"cujo" is spelled C-U-J-O.
What does "cujo" mean?
As a pron, "cujo" means: relaciona dois substantivos, um antecedente e outro consequente, sendo este último possuidor de algo (qualidade, condição, sentimento, ser etc.) designado pelo primeiro; equivale a de que, de quem,...
What words are commonly confused with "cujo"?
"cujo" is commonly confused with "cut", "cum", "cura". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "cujo" come from?
"cujo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

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.