emo
/ˈi.moʊ/
The verdict
“emo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,337) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,337
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - emo (um estilo particular de roque punk hardcore)
Corpus desk
Index PT-emo · emo · Portuguese
emo · rank #29,337 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,337
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH elfo
Nearest frequency peer: elfo (-1 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “emo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- doping
doping
70,671 corpus weight
- economy
economy
70,666 corpus weight
- elfo
elfo
70,665 corpus weight
- emo
emo
70,664 corpus weight
- enxurrada
enxurrada
70,658 corpus weight
- espantado
espantado
70,653 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “emo” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | emo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈi.moʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “emo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for emo is neighbouring look-alikes ("eu", "en", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈi.moʊ/. Frequency #29,337 among 1,279 “E” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for emo in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eu", "en", "es", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 emo, spelled E-M-O.
Definition
- 1emo (um estilo particular de roque punk hardcore)
- 2emo (qualquer forma de roque alternativo particularmente ou notavelmente emocional)
- 3emo (um indivíduo associado a esse estilo de música)
- 4emo (um indivíduo associado a uma moda ou um estereótipo desse estilo)
- 5emo (um(a) jovem considerado muito emotivo ou esteriotipamente emo)
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).