prisioneiro

noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,965

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

prisioneiro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: uma pessoa confinada em prisão ou mantida em custódia, especialmente como resultado de um processo legal It ranks #7,965 in Portuguese word frequency.

Key facts for prisioneiro
PropertyValue
Headwordprisioneiro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#7,965
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of prisioneiro in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for prisioneiro is 11 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #7,965 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for prisioneiro, with forms such as "pirsioneiro", "pprisioneiro", and "priisoneiro". 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 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 prisioneiro, spelled P-R-I-S-I-O-N-E-I-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    uma pessoa confinada em prisão ou mantida em custódia, especialmente como resultado de um processo legal
  2. 2
    soldado inimigo capturado e mantido em custódia

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirsioneiro,pprisioneiro,priisoneiro,prisinoeiro,prisioeniro,prisioneior,prisioneirro,prisionerio,prisioniero,prisionneiro,prisoineiro,prissioneiro,prrisioneiro,prsiioneiro,rpisioneiro

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prisioneiro

Misspelling Variants of "prisioneiro"

pirsioneiro11pprisioneiro12priisoneiro11prisinoeiro11prisioeniro11prisioneior11prisioneirro12prisionerio11
Misspelling Variants of "prisioneiro"

Frequency rank: #7,965 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prisioneiro"?
"prisioneiro" is spelled P-R-I-S-I-O-N-E-I-R-O.
What does "prisioneiro" mean?
As a noun, "prisioneiro" means: uma pessoa confinada em prisão ou mantida em custódia, especialmente como resultado de um processo legal
What are common misspellings of "prisioneiro"?
Common misspellings include "pirsioneiro", "pprisioneiro", "priisoneiro", "prisinoeiro", "prisioeniro". The correct spelling is "prisioneiro".
What language does "prisioneiro" come from?
"prisioneiro" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.