rabo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,103
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rabo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: extremidade do corpo oposta à cabeça, nos peixes, répteis e alguns insetos Pronounced /ˈRa.bu/. It ranks #4,103 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with rio and Ram.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rabo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈRa.bu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for rabo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈRa.bu/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,103 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rabo, with forms such as "arbo", "rabbo", and "raob". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rio", "Ram", "rae", 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 rabo, spelled R-A-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1extremidade do corpo oposta à cabeça, nos peixes, répteis e alguns insetos
- 2cabo de utensílio ou ferramenta
- 3continuação da coluna vertebral em vários mamíferos
- 4nádegas, bunda, traseiro, cu
- 5homem homossexual
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arbo,rabbo,raob,rbao,rrabo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rabo
Misspelling Variants of "rabo"
Frequency rank: #4,103 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Portuguese index: