pessoal
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#445
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
pessoal is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo a pessoa Pronounced /pɨ.ˈswaɫ/. It ranks #445 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pessoa and personal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pessoal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /pɨ.ˈswaɫ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pessoal is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɨ.ˈswaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #445 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pessoal, with forms such as "epssoal", "pesoal", and "pesosal". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pessoa", "personal", 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 pessoal, spelled P-E-S-S-O-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1relativo a pessoa
- 2que é próprio e particular de cada pessoa
- 3exclusivo de certa pessoa; individual
- 4diz-se de pronome que representa pessoa gramatical
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epssoal,pesoal,pesosal,pessaol,pessoall,pessola,ppessoal,psesoal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pessoal
Misspelling Variants of "pessoal"
Frequency rank: #445 in Portuguese
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