ouro
/ˈow.ɾu/, /ˈo.ɾu/
The verdict
“ouro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #876) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #876
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - da cor de ouro
Corpus desk
Index PT-ouro · ouro · Portuguese
ouro · rank #876 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #876
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH opinião
Nearest frequency peer: opinião (-2 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 “ouro”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- natal
natal
99,129 corpus weight
- nota
nota
99,128 corpus weight
- opinião
opinião
99,127 corpus weight
- ouro
ouro
99,125 corpus weight
- pé
pé
99,123 corpus weight
- sábado
sábado
99,121 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ouro” 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 | ouro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈow.ɾu/, /ˈo.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ouro”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ouro is neighbouring look-alikes ("ovo", "outro", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ˈow.ɾu/, /ˈo.ɾu/. Frequency #876 among 385 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ouro, with forms such as "oruo", "ouor", and "ourro". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ovo", "outro", "ou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is ouro, spelled O-U-R-O.
Definition
- 1da cor de ouro
- 2áureo, dourado
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oruo
- ouor
- ourro
- uoro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ouro - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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