gladíolo
/głɜˈdiułu/
The verdict
“gladíolo” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - planta que nasce de um bolbo, do gênero Gladiolus, caracterizada pelas suas folhas em forma de espada
Corpus desk
Index PT-gladiolo · gladíolo · Portuguese
gladíolo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gladíolo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /głɜˈdiułu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gladíolo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gladíolo is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /głɜˈdiułu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "planta que nasce de um bolbo, do gênero Gladiolus, caracterizada pelas suas folhas em forma de espada".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gladíolo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is gladíolo, spelled G-L-A-D-Í-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1planta que nasce de um bolbo, do gênero Gladiolus, caracterizada pelas suas folhas em forma de espada
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.