rairo

noun

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The verdict

“rairo” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
5
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - pequeno ribeiro de água

Corpus desk

Index PT-rairo · rairo · Portuguese

rairo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "R" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for rairo
PropertyValue
Headwordrairo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “rairo” sits in Portuguese frequency

rairo falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rairo is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rairo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is rairo, spelled R-A-I-R-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    pequeno ribeiro de água
  2. 2
    levada; canal menor para condução de água; sulco de rega
  3. 3
    pequena represa
  4. 4
    no moinho de água, pau que sustém e sobre o que gira inferiormente o eixo rodízio
  5. 5
    inferno do moinho de água, o espaço inferior onde está o rodízio
  6. 6
    cada um dos rádios de madeira da roda do carro-de-bois
  7. 7
    o mesmo que raio quando se amaldiçoa para evitar o tabuísmo de raio

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rairo"?
"rairo" is spelled R-A-I-R-O.
What does "rairo" mean?
As a noun, "rairo" means: pequeno ribeiro de água
What language does "rairo" come from?
"rairo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list