onda
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,059
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
onda is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elevação e depressão da camada superficial de uma massa líquida; vaga Pronounced /ˈõ.dɐ/. It ranks #2,059 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with one and ora.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onda |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈõ.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for onda is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈõ.dɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,059 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 onda, with forms such as "noda", "odna", and "onad". 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, "one", "ora", "ONU", 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 onda, spelled O-N-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1elevação e depressão da camada superficial de uma massa líquida; vaga
- 2caracóis no cabelo; ondulação
- 3grande afluência
- 4perturbação, transitória ou contínua, que se propaga através de um meio transportando energia
- 5maneira de ser ou de estar; moda
- 6estupefação produzida pelo uso ou consumo de entorpecente ou droga
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: noda,odna,onad,ondda,onnda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for onda
Misspelling Variants of "onda"
Frequency rank: #2,059 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our Portuguese index: