olho
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,251
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
olho is aPortuguesenoun. It means: órgão, geralmente aos pares, de vários animais responsável pela visão Pronounced /ˈɔ.ʎʊ/. It ranks #1,251 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ovo and oro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɔ.ʎʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for olho is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɔ.ʎʊ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,251 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for olho, with forms such as "loho", "ohlo", and "olhho". 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, "ovo", "oro", "ono", 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 olho, spelled O-L-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1órgão, geralmente aos pares, de vários animais responsável pela visão
- 2percepção realizada pelo sentido da visão
- 3habilidade inata ou experiência em determinado campo ou para realizar certa tarefa
- 4orifício que se forma no queijo ou em outras massas
- 5furo, na agulha, para a passagem de linhas ou fios
- 6vão no centro da mó superior de um moinho, por onde passam os grãos
- 7espaço para inserir o cabo em certas ferramentas
- 8folhas que compõem o miolo de determinadas hortaliças
- 9olho-d'água
- 10janela ou abertura em forma de círculo ou elipse, na parede ou no teto, com funções de iluminação e ventilação
- 11parte visível de plantas em estágio inicial de desenvolvimento, geralmente consistindo de um caule em crescimento e folhas
- 12região localizada no centro de um ciclone tropical forte, onde as condições climáticas são amenas
- 13breve texto que serve para destacar um assunto relacionado à matéria principal
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: loho,ohlo,olhho,ollho,oloh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for olho
Misspelling Variants of "olho"
Frequency rank: #1,251 in Portuguese
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