esquerdo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,985
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
esquerdo is anPortugueseadj. It means: que está do lado oposto ao direito, sinistro, sestro Pronounced /iʃ.ˈkeɾ.du/. It ranks #3,985 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with esquerda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esquerdo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /iʃ.ˈkeɾ.du/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for esquerdo is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.ˈkeɾ.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,985 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for esquerdo, with forms such as "eqsuerdo", "esqeurdo", and "esqquerdo". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "esquerda", 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 esquerdo, spelled E-S-Q-U-E-R-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que está do lado oposto ao direito, sinistro, sestro
- 2oblíquo, atravessado, de revestrés, torto, de má vontade
- 3indivíduo canhoto
- 4desajeitado, desastrado, canhestro, gauche
- 5desagradável, constrangedor, incômodo
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eqsuerdo,esqeurdo,esqquerdo,esquedro,esquerddo,esquerod,esquerrdo,esquredo,essquerdo,esuqerdo,sequerdo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esquerdo
Misspelling Variants of "esquerdo"
Frequency rank: #3,985 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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