primeiro

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for primeiro is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾi.ˈmej.ɾʊ]. Corpus data places it at rank #142 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "refere-se àquele que ocupa a posição inicial em uma série; o mais antigo; o que vem antes".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for primeiro, with forms such as "pirmeiro", "pprimeiro", and "priemiro". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "primeira", "perímetro", 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 primeiro, spelled P-R-I-M-E-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.