impulso
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,748
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
impulso is aPortuguesenoun. It means: desejo repentino de fazer algo (sem pensar nas consequências) Pronounced /ĩ.ˈpuɫ.su/. It ranks #5,748 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with impuro and impulsivo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impulso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ĩ.ˈpuɫ.su/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for impulso is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.ˈpuɫ.su/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,748 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for impulso, with forms such as "immpulso", "impluso", and "imppulso". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "impuro", "impulsivo", 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 impulso, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1desejo repentino de fazer algo (sem pensar nas consequências)
- 2força ou estimulação repentina
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immpulso,impluso,imppulso,impullso,impulos,impulsso,impuslo,imuplso,ipmulso,mipulso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "impulso"
Frequency rank: #5,748 in Portuguese
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