gajo

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,305

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gajo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: qualquer pessoa cujo nome não se conhece ou se quer omitir; fulano (também jocoso ou pejorativo) It ranks #5,305 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with go and gay.

Key facts for gajo
PropertyValue
Headwordgajo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,305
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for gajo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,305 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 gajo, with forms such as "agjo", "gajjo", and "gaoj". 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 gajo, spelled G-A-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    qualquer pessoa cujo nome não se conhece ou se quer omitir; fulano (também jocoso ou pejorativo)
  2. 2
    indivíduo de baixa reputação
  3. 3
    indivíduo velhaco, finório
  4. 4
    indivíduo natural de Portugal; português
  5. 5
    indivíduo de maneiras abrutalhadas
  6. 6
    malandro

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agjo,gajjo,gaoj,ggajo,gjao

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gajo

Misspelling Variants of "gajo"

agjo4gajjo5gaoj4ggajo5gjao4
Misspelling Variants of "gajo"

Frequency rank: #5,305 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gajo"?
"gajo" is spelled G-A-J-O.
What does "gajo" mean?
As a noun, "gajo" means: qualquer pessoa cujo nome não se conhece ou se quer omitir; fulano (também jocoso ou pejorativo)
What words are commonly confused with "gajo"?
"gajo" is commonly confused with "go", "gay", "gás". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "gajo" come from?
"gajo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter G 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.