gado
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,739
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
gado is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto de animais (bois, carneiros, cabritos, cavalos etc.) criados para diversos fins Pronounced /ˈga.do/. It ranks #5,739 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with go and gay.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈga.do/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for gado is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈga.do/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,739 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for gado, with forms such as "agdo", "gaddo", and "gaod". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "gay", "gás", 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 gado, spelled G-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conjunto de animais (bois, carneiros, cabritos, cavalos etc.) criados para diversos fins
- 2conjunto de prostitutas
- 3pessoa que aceita abusos e humilhações de alguém por quem tenha interesse sexual, na esperança de ser recompensado com sexo
- 4pessoa que se submete aos caprichos do seu par romântico sem questionar e/ou ter seus desejos atendidos na mesma proporção
- 5termo usado por pessoas sexualmente insatisfeitas para se referir a homens que agem de forma educada e gentil com mulheres, com a intenção de insinuar que estes homens estejam agindo apenas por motivação sexual, mesmo que não haja nenhuma evidência disso
- 6apoiador(a) do político Jair Messias Bolsonaro
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agdo,gaddo,gaod,gdao,ggado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gado
Misspelling Variants of "gado"
Frequency rank: #5,739 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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