murro
/ˈmu.Ru/
The verdict
“murro” sits in 19 confusable pairs (corpus #17,335) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,335
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pancada desferida com a mão fechada
Corpus desk
Index PT-murro · murro · Portuguese
murro · rank #17,335 · 4 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,335
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mir
Nearest frequency peer: mir (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “murro”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- luminoso
luminoso
82,676 corpus weight
- maker
maker
82,672 corpus weight
- mensalmente
mensalmente
82,669 corpus weight
- mir
mir
82,667 corpus weight
- murro
murro
82,666 corpus weight
- otimização
otimização
82,659 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “murro” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | murro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmu.Ru/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “murro”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for murro is neighbouring look-alikes ("muto", "muso", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈmu.Ru/. Frequency #17,335 among 1,087 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for murro, with forms such as "mmurro", "mruro", and "muror". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "muto", "muso", "muro", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is murro, spelled M-U-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1pancada desferida com a mão fechada
- 2soco
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmurro
- mruro
- muror
- umrro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of murro - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "murro", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).