modo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#606
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
modo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: maneira, jeito Pronounced /ˈmɔ.du/. It ranks #606 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with mor and moi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɔ.du/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for modo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmɔ.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #606 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for modo, with forms such as "mdoo", "mmodo", and "moddo". 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, "mor", "moi", "mora", 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 modo, spelled M-O-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1maneira, jeito
- 2situação, estado
- 3habilidade, destreza
- 4possibilidade, condição
- 5costume, moda
- 6educação, comedimento, moderação
- 7uma das características do verbo, que indica como a ação é expressa (Ex: indicativo, subjuntivo, imperativo)
- 8declaração complementar à afirmação ou negação de uma proposição indicando ser necessária, casual, falsificável, duvidosa, equivalente, proibida etc.
- 9forma de cumprir um ato jurídico ou um contrato
- 10composição mineral real de uma rocha, geralmente expressa em porcentagem de peso ou volume
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mdoo,mmodo,moddo,omdo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for modo
Misspelling Variants of "modo"
Frequency rank: #606 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index: