janeiro
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#259
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
janeiro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: primeiro mês do ano civil, tendo 31 dias Pronounced /ʒa.ˈnej.ɾu/. It ranks #259 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with Jânio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | janeiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒa.ˈnej.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for janeiro is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʒa.ˈnej.ɾu/. Corpus data places it at rank #259 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for janeiro, with forms such as "ajneiro", "jaeniro", and "janeior". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Jânio", 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 janeiro, spelled J-A-N-E-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1primeiro mês do ano civil, tendo 31 dias
- 2idade, primavera
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajneiro,jaeniro,janeior,janeirro,janerio,janiero,janneiro,jjaneiro,jnaeiro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for janeiro
Misspelling Variants of "janeiro"
Frequency rank: #259 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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