povo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#432
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
povo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto dos habitantes de um país, de uma cidade, de uma localidade, etc Pronounced /ˈpo.vu/. It ranks #432 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pro and puro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | povo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpo.vu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for povo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpo.vu/. Corpus data places it at rank #432 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 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for povo, with forms such as "opvo", "poov", and "povvo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pro", "puro", "puto", 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 povo, spelled P-O-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conjunto dos habitantes de um país, de uma cidade, de uma localidade, etc
- 2multidão de gente; o público
- 3a classe inferior da sociedade; plebe
- 4pequena povoação; lugarejo
- 5gente; turma
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opvo,poov,povvo,ppovo,pvoo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for povo
Misspelling Variants of "povo"
Frequency rank: #432 in Portuguese
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