oráculo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,514
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
oráculo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: (na Grécia antiga) resposta (geralmente ambígua ou obscura) dada por um sacerdote a uma pergunta de um consulente Pronounced /ɔ.ˈɾa.ku.lu/. Often confused with oração.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oráculo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.ˈɾa.ku.lu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for oráculo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.ˈɾa.ku.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,514 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for oráculo, with forms such as "orcáulo", "orráculo", and "orácculo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "oração", 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 oráculo, spelled O-R-Á-C-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(na Grécia antiga) resposta (geralmente ambígua ou obscura) dada por um sacerdote a uma pergunta de um consulente
- 2o local onde esse sacerdote se encontrava
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orcáulo,orráculo,orácculo,orácluo,orácullo,orácuol,oráuclo,oárculo,roáculo
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Misspelling Variants of "oráculo"
Frequency rank: #19,514 in Portuguese
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