drogo
/ˈdɾɔ.gʊ/
The verdict
“drogo” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #49,423 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #49,423
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo drogar
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drogo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdɾɔ.gʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drogo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for drogo is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɾɔ.gʊ/. Corpus data places it at rank #49,423 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo drogar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for drogo, with forms such as "ddrogo", "dorgo", and "drgoo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "drop", "dog", "digo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is drogo, spelled D-R-O-G-O.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo drogar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddrogo,dorgo,drgoo,droggo,droog,drrogo,rdogo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drogo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “drogo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-R-O-G-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdɾɔ.gʊ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “drop” - see the side-by-side comparison. drogo vs drop
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.