público
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#300
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
público is anPortugueseadj. It means: que pertence ao povo Pronounced /ˈpu.bli.ku/. It ranks #300 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with public.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | público |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˈpu.bli.ku/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for público is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpu.bli.ku/. Corpus data places it at rank #300 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for público, with forms such as "pbúlico", "ppúblico", and "púbblico". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "public", 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 público, spelled P-Ú-B-L-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que pertence ao povo
- 2relativo ao governo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pbúlico,ppúblico,púbblico,púbilco,públcio,públicco,públioc,públlico,púlbico,úpblico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for público
Misspelling Variants of "público"
Frequency rank: #300 in Portuguese
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