motel
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,372
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
motel is aPortuguesenoun. It means: estabelecimento de hospedagem em que as pessoas geralmente vão com o objetivo de manter relações sexuais e não necessariamente para conseguir alojamento Pronounced /mɔ.ˈtɛɫ/. It ranks #9,372 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with moto and móvel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɔ.ˈtɛɫ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for motel is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɔ.ˈtɛɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,372 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 motel, with forms such as "mmotel", "moetl", and "motell". 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, "moto", "móvel", "mover", 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 motel, spelled M-O-T-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1estabelecimento de hospedagem em que as pessoas geralmente vão com o objetivo de manter relações sexuais e não necessariamente para conseguir alojamento
- 2estabelecimento de hospedagem com quartos adjacentes ao estacionamento, geralmente para estadias curtas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmotel,moetl,motell,motle,mottel,mtoel,omtel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for motel
Misspelling Variants of "motel"
Frequency rank: #9,372 in Portuguese
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