medo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for medo is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as AFI: /'me.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #379 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que pertence ou se refere à Média".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for medo, with forms such as "emdo", "mdeo", and "meddo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mo", "meu", "mês", 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 medo, spelled M-E-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.