Porto Alegre
The verdict
“Porto Alegre” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Porto Alegre |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈpoɾ.tu ɐ.ˈlɛ.gɾi/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Porto Alegre” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Porto Alegre is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpoɾ.tu ɐ.ˈlɛ.gɾi/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul".
No misspelling variants are generated for Porto Alegre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Alegre, spelled P-O-R-T-O- -A-L-E-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul
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Using “Porto Alegre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-O-R-T-O- -A-L-E-G-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpoɾ.tu ɐ.ˈlɛ.gɾi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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