gramofone
/ɡɾɐ.mɔ.ˈfɔ.nɨ/
The verdict
“gramofone” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,302 among 1,241 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,302
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,241
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aparelho reprodutor de música, dotado de uma campana coniforme, que amplia o som produzido por uma agulha que em contato com um disco em rotação o produz
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gramofone |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɾɐ.mɔ.ˈfɔ.nɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gramofone” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gramofone is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,302 among 1,241 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɾɐ.mɔ.ˈfɔ.nɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aparelho reprodutor de música, dotado de uma campana coniforme, que amplia o som produzido por uma agulha que em contato com um disco em rotação o produz".
Zero misspellings are on record for gramofone in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is gramofone, spelled G-R-A-M-O-F-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1aparelho reprodutor de música, dotado de uma campana coniforme, que amplia o som produzido por uma agulha que em contato com um disco em rotação o produz
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gramofone”
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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is G-R-A-M-O-F-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.