dildo
/ˈdɪɫdoʊ/
The verdict
“dildo” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #62,116 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,116
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - dildo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dildo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɪɫdoʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dildo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for dildo is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɪɫdoʊ/. Corpus data places it at rank #62,116 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "dildo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dildo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is dildo, spelled D-I-L-D-O.
Definition
- 1dildo
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “dildo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-I-L-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.