período
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#540
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
período is aPortuguesenoun. It means: intervalo de tempo decorrido entre dois momentos, acontecimentos ou datas Pronounced [p(ɨ)ɾi'uðu] (nunca de acordo com a grafia: [p(ɨ)'ɾiwðu]). It ranks #540 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with périplo and peido.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | período |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [p(ɨ)ɾi'uðu] (nunca de acordo com a grafia: [p(ɨ)'ɾiwðu]) |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for período is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [p(ɨ)ɾi'uðu] (nunca de acordo com a grafia: [p(ɨ)'ɾiwðu]). Corpus data places it at rank #540 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 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 período, with forms such as "epríodo", "peroído", and "perríodo". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "périplo", "peido", "pedido", 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 período, spelled P-E-R-Í-O-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1intervalo de tempo decorrido entre dois momentos, acontecimentos ou datas
- 2frase composta de uma oração (chamado período simples) ou muitas orações (chamado período composto), com sentido completo e independente
- 3menstruação
- 4parte de uma era, que é subdividida em idades:
- 5intervalo do ano escolar (no ensino pré-universitário) de aproximadamente três meses, o primeiro decorrendo entre o início do ano letivo e o Natal, o segundo entre o Natal e a Páscoa e o terceiro entre a Páscoa e o final do ano letivo
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epríodo,peroído,perríodo,perídoo,períoddo,períood,peírodo,pperíodo,preíodo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "período"
Frequency rank: #540 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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