embargo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,696
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
embargo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: recurso judicial para impedir a execução de uma sentença até que seja feita uma revisão do julgamento Pronounced /ẽ.ˈbaɾ.ɡu/. Often confused with encargo and embalo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embargo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ẽ.ˈbaɾ.ɡu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for embargo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.ˈbaɾ.ɡu/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,696 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for embargo, with forms such as "ebmargo", "emabrgo", and "embagro". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "encargo", "embalo", 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 embargo, spelled E-M-B-A-R-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1recurso judicial para impedir a execução de uma sentença até que seja feita uma revisão do julgamento
- 2decisão judicial de impedir o prosseguimento de uma atividade, como a construção de uma obra ou a saída de um navio do porto
- 3restrição ao comércio com algum país
- 4obstáculo, empecilho
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ebmargo,emabrgo,embagro,embarggo,embarog,embarrgo,embbargo,embrago,emmbargo,mebargo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for embargo
Misspelling Variants of "embargo"
Frequency rank: #19,696 in Portuguese
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