órgão
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,659
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
órgão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: instrumento musical com teclado cujo som é formado pelo vento que passa por tubos Pronounced /ˈɔrgɜ̃ũ/. It ranks #2,659 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with oro and orla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | órgão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɔrgɜ̃ũ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for órgão is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɔrgɜ̃ũ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,659 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for órgão, with forms such as "rógão", "ógrão", and "órggão". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "oro", "orla", "órgãos", 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 órgão, spelled Ó-R-G-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1instrumento musical com teclado cujo som é formado pelo vento que passa por tubos
- 2estrutura do corpo de seres vivos responsável por uma determinada função
- 3instituição de um estado responsável por uma determinada função
- 4organização, legalmente reconhecida, que tem definida por lei, uma determinada função
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rógão,ógrão,órggão,órgoã,órrgão,órãgo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for órgão
Misspelling Variants of "órgão"
Frequency rank: #2,659 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter Ó in our Portuguese index: