grelo

//ˈɡɾe.lu// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,743

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

grelo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: gema que se desenvolve na semente, bolbo ou tubérculo e brota da terra; broto Pronounced /ˈɡɾe.lu/.

Key facts for grelo
PropertyValue
Headwordgrelo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈɡɾe.lu/
Letters5
Frequency rank#56,743
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for grelo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡɾe.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #56,743 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for grelo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 grelo, spelled G-R-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
    gema que se desenvolve na semente, bolbo ou tubérculo e brota da terra; broto
  2. 2
    haste de algumas plantas, em que deverão desabrochar as flores, geralmente das crucíferas, especialmente referido ao grelo do nabo
  3. 3
    clitóris
  4. 4
    pequena fita estreita que orna a pasta dos universitários quartanistas e é queimada na cerimônia da Queima das Fitas, de antiga tradição coimbrã

Frequency rank: #56,743 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grelo"?
"grelo" is spelled G-R-E-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈɡɾe.lu/.
What does "grelo" mean?
As a noun, "grelo" means: gema que se desenvolve na semente, bolbo ou tubérculo e brota da terra; broto
How do you pronounce "grelo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grelo" is /ˈɡɾe.lu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grelo" come from?
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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.