dolo

noun

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The verdict

“dolo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #43,862. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,862
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vontade livre e consciente de realizar uma conduta tipificada na legislação penal

Corpus desk

Index PT-dolo · dolo · Portuguese

dolo · rank #43,862 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,862
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH dial

Nearest frequency peer: dial (-4 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “dolo”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “dolo” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dolo vs dos
50% similar
dolo vs dor
50% similar
dolo vs dom
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dolo
PropertyValue
Headworddolo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#43,862
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “dolo”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).dolocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “dial” (#43,858), “elegia” (#43,868), “desdobrar” (#43,850). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “dolo” fica em #43,862. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around dolo, anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,862 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "vontade livre e consciente de realizar uma conduta tipificada na legislação penal".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for dolo, with forms such as "ddolo", "dloo", and "dollo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dos", "dor", "dom", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is dolo, spelled D-O-L-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    vontade livre e consciente de realizar uma conduta tipificada na legislação penal

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O dolo do crime de furto (artigo 155,

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddolo
  • dloo
  • dollo
  • dool
  • odlo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dolo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddolo1dloo2dollo1dool2odlo2
Edit distance from "dolo"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dolo"?
"dolo" is spelled D-O-L-O.
What does "dolo" mean?
As a noun, "dolo" means: vontade livre e consciente de realizar uma conduta tipificada na legislação penal
What words are commonly confused with "dolo"?
"dolo" is commonly confused with "dos", "dor", "dom". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "dolo" come from?
"dolo" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dolo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dial#43,858ermo#43,878idle#43,937andi#43,754

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

nami5 variantstous5 variantspomo5 variantssopé5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list