gelo

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,325

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gelo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: água em estado sólido, cristalizada, por estar em temperatura muito baixa It ranks #2,325 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with go and gol.

Key facts for gelo
PropertyValue
Headwordgelo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,325
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for gelo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #2,325 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 gelo, with forms such as "eglo", "gello", and "geol". 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", "gol", "get", 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 gelo, spelled G-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    água em estado sólido, cristalizada, por estar em temperatura muito baixa
  2. 2
    desamor; frieza; indiferença; insensibilidade

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eglo,gello,geol,ggelo,gleo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gelo

Misspelling Variants of "gelo"

eglo4gello5geol4ggelo5gleo4
Misspelling Variants of "gelo"

Frequency rank: #2,325 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gelo"?
"gelo" is spelled G-E-L-O.
What does "gelo" mean?
As a noun, "gelo" means: água em estado sólido, cristalizada, por estar em temperatura muito baixa
What words are commonly confused with "gelo"?
"gelo" is commonly confused with "go", "gol", "get". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "gelo" come from?
"gelo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.