íris
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,993
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
íris is aPortuguesenoun. It means: meteoro luminoso produzido na atmosfera em forma de arco pela decomposição dos raios solares Pronounced /ˈi.ɾiʃ/. It ranks #7,993 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with is and its.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | íris |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈi.ɾiʃ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for íris is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈi.ɾiʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,993 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for íris, with forms such as "ríis", "íirs", and "íriss". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "is", "its", "irmã", and more, 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 íris, spelled Í-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1meteoro luminoso produzido na atmosfera em forma de arco pela decomposição dos raios solares
- 2cores que, através de algumas lunetas, se observam em volta dos objetos
- 3quartzo irisado
- 4membrana circular e colorida situada no interior do olho e da qual procede a cor dos olhos
- 5gênero de plantas com flor, muito apreciado pelas suas diversas espécies, que ostentam flores de cores muito vivas; são, vulgarmente, designadas como lírios
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ríis,íirs,íriss,írris,írsi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for íris
Misspelling Variants of "íris"
Frequency rank: #7,993 in Portuguese
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