metal
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,027
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
metal is aPortuguesenoun. It means: toda substância simples, dotada de brilho próprio (brilho metálico), boa condutora de calor e de eletricidade, que forma óxidos básicos em contato com o oxigênio, e que na eletrólise se dirige ao p... Pronounced /mɨ.ˈtaɫ/. It ranks #3,027 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with moral and meter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | metal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨ.ˈtaɫ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for metal is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɨ.ˈtaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,027 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for metal, with forms such as "emtal", "meatl", and "metall". 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, "moral", "meter", "metro", 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 metal, spelled M-E-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1toda substância simples, dotada de brilho próprio (brilho metálico), boa condutora de calor e de eletricidade, que forma óxidos básicos em contato com o oxigênio, e que na eletrólise se dirige ao pólo negativo
- 2dinheiro
- 3instrumento musicai de sopro cujo método de ativação é a vibração dos lábios
- 4estilo musical, derivado do rock, que utiliza guitarra, bateria e contrabaixo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emtal,meatl,metall,metla,mettal,mmetal,mteal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for metal
Misspelling Variants of "metal"
Frequency rank: #3,027 in Portuguese
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