guô
/gu.'o/, /xu.'o/
The verdict
“guô” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - xô, voz para deter animais de carga
Corpus desk
Index PT-guo · guô · Portuguese
guô · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | guô |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /gu.'o/, /xu.'o/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “guô” em português
Rare enough to double-check
guô is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /gu.'o/, /xu.'o/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "xô, voz para deter animais de carga".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for guô, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 guô, spelled G-U-Ô.
Definition
- 1xô, voz para deter animais de carga
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.