rádio
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#857
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rádio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elemento químico de símbolo Ra, possui o número atômico 88 e massa atômica relativa 226,025 u; é um metal alcalino terroso, branco prateado, altamente radioativo; ocorre em todos os minérios de urâ... It ranks #857 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with rio and ramo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rádio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for rádio is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #857 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for rádio, with forms such as "rdáio", "rrádio", and "ráddio". 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", "ramo", "raiz", 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 rádio, spelled R-Á-D-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo Ra, possui o número atômico 88 e massa atômica relativa 226,025 u; é um metal alcalino terroso, branco prateado, altamente radioativo; ocorre em todos os minérios de urânio, e é produzido por decaimento radioativo; é utilizado na medicina para tratamento de câncer e, em laboratórios, como fonte de neutrons para análise de materiais
- 2osso do braço que se estende do lado de dentro do cotovelo até o lado do pulso onde se encontra o polegar
- 3equipamentos utilizados para receber os sinais radiofônicos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rdáio,rrádio,ráddio,rádoi,ráido,árdio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rádio
Misspelling Variants of "rádio"
Frequency rank: #857 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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