espectro
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,049
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
espectro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aparição sobrenatural de pessoa morta; vulto fantasmagórico Pronounced /isˈpɛk.tɾu/, /esˈpɛk.tɾu/, /isˈpɛ.ki.tɾu/, /esˈpɛ.ki.tɾu/. It ranks #8,049 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with espeto and esperto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espectro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /isˈpɛk.tɾu/, /esˈpɛk.tɾu/, /isˈpɛ.ki.tɾu/, /esˈpɛ.ki.tɾu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for espectro is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /isˈpɛk.tɾu/, /esˈpɛk.tɾu/, /isˈpɛ.ki.tɾu/, /esˈpɛ.ki.tɾu/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,049 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for espectro, with forms such as "epsectro", "esepctro", and "espcetro". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "espeto", "esperto", "espectral", 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 espectro, spelled E-S-P-E-C-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aparição sobrenatural de pessoa morta; vulto fantasmagórico
- 2imagem imaterial que domina o pensamento, podendo ser real ou existir apenas na imaginação
- 3algo que tem apenas aparência vã, fátua
- 4aquilo que causa temor, que é ameaçador; a possibilidade que algo ocorra a qualquer momento, provocando uma sensação geral de medo, preocupação, cisma ou algo parecido, por representar grave ameaça
- 5indivíduo esquálido e macilento
- 6conjunto de radiações em várias frequências, intensidade, longitude de onda e outros efeitos, que são resultado da decomposição de fenômeno físico que se transmite por ondas, como por exemplo o arco-íris que deriva da decomposição da luz do Sol
- 7campo de ação terapêutica de um medicamento, especialmente de um antibiótico
- 8conjunto de autovalores de uma matriz
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epsectro,esepctro,espcetro,especctro,especrto,espector,espectrro,especttro,espetcro,esppectro,esspectro,sepectro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for espectro
Misspelling Variants of "espectro"
Frequency rank: #8,049 in Portuguese
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