Paolo
/'pa.βlo/.
The verdict
“Paolo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,404) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,404
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pablo, Paolo, Paulo
Corpus desk
Index PT-paolo · Paolo · Portuguese
Paolo · rank #18,404 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,404
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH orgulhar
Nearest frequency peer: orgulhar (-1 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 “Paolo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- nulo
nulo
81,601 corpus weight
- orgulhar
orgulhar
81,598 corpus weight
- Paolo
Paolo
81,597 corpus weight
- patrimonial
patrimonial
81,595 corpus weight
- pentágono
pentágono
81,594 corpus weight
- pepino
pepino
81,593 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Paolo” 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 | Paolo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'pa.βlo/. |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Paolo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Paolo is neighbouring look-alikes ("Pol", "povo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /'pa.βlo/.. Frequency #18,404 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Pablo, Paolo, Paulo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Paolo, with forms such as "paloo", "paool", and "poalo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pol", "povo", "Paul", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is Paolo, spelled P-A-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Pablo, Paolo, Paulo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- paloo
- paool
- poalo
- ppaolo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Paolo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Paolo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).