escravo

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,529

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

escravo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pessoa que foi escravizada It ranks #5,529 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with escrito and escreva.

Key facts for escravo
PropertyValue
Headwordescravo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,529
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of escravo in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for escravo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,529 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 escravo, with forms such as "ecsravo", "escarvo", and "esccravo". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "escrito", "escreva", "estrago", 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 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 escravo, spelled E-S-C-R-A-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    pessoa que foi escravizada
  2. 2
    pessoa dominada fisicamente ou psicologicamente por algo ou alguém

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecsravo,escarvo,esccravo,escraov,escravvo,escrravo,escrvao,esrcavo,esscravo,secravo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for escravo

Misspelling Variants of "escravo"

ecsravo7escarvo7esccravo8escraov7escravvo8escrravo8escrvao7esrcavo7
Misspelling Variants of "escravo"

Frequency rank: #5,529 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escravo"?
"escravo" is spelled E-S-C-R-A-V-O.
What does "escravo" mean?
As a noun, "escravo" means: pessoa que foi escravizada
What words are commonly confused with "escravo"?
"escravo" is commonly confused with "escrito", "escreva", "estrago". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "escravo" come from?
"escravo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.