porto
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#526
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
porto is aPortuguesenoun. It means: lugar sobre uma costa de mar, ou junto à foz de um rio, para abrigo e ancoradouro de navios Pronounced /ˈpoɾ.tu/. It ranks #526 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pro and povo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpoɾ.tu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for porto is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpoɾ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #526 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for porto, with forms such as "oprto", "porot", and "porrto". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pro", "povo", "puro", 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 porto, spelled P-O-R-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1lugar sobre uma costa de mar, ou junto à foz de um rio, para abrigo e ancoradouro de navios
- 2lugar onde se embarca ou desembarca
- 3lugar de refúgio ou de descanso
- 4vinho cultivado no vale do Douro e armazenado na cidade portuguesa do Porto
- 5lugar estreito de passagem de um regueiro ou rio, que se atravessa a pulo ou por poldras
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprto,porot,porrto,portto,pporto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for porto
Misspelling Variants of "porto"
Frequency rank: #526 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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