futebol
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#443
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
futebol is aPortuguesenoun. It means: esporte cujas partidas são disputadas por duas equipes de onze jogadores, em que é proibido (exceto aos goleiros, quando dentro da sua área) o uso dos braços e mãos, e cujo objetivo é fazer entrar ... Pronounced /fu.tɨ.ˈbɔɫ/. It ranks #443 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with fútbol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | futebol |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fu.tɨ.ˈbɔɫ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for futebol is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fu.tɨ.ˈbɔɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #443 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.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 futebol, with forms such as "ffutebol", "ftuebol", and "fuetbol". 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, "fútbol", 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 futebol, spelled F-U-T-E-B-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1esporte cujas partidas são disputadas por duas equipes de onze jogadores, em que é proibido (exceto aos goleiros, quando dentro da sua área) o uso dos braços e mãos, e cujo objetivo é fazer entrar uma bola no gol do adversário
- 2estilo e técnica de jogar futebol¹
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffutebol,ftuebol,fuetbol,futbeol,futebbol,futeblo,futeboll,futeobl,futtebol,uftebol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for futebol
Misspelling Variants of "futebol"
Frequency rank: #443 in Portuguese
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