realejo

//χe.a.ˈle.ʒu// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#87,638

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

realejo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: instrumento que toca uma música predefinida quando se gira uma manivela Pronounced /χe.a.ˈle.ʒu/.

Key facts for realejo
PropertyValue
Headwordrealejo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/χe.a.ˈle.ʒu/
Letters7
Frequency rank#87,638
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for realejo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /χe.a.ˈle.ʒu/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,638 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for realejo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 realejo, spelled R-E-A-L-E-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    instrumento que toca uma música predefinida quando se gira uma manivela
  2. 2
    uirapuru, diversas aves da floresta pluvial americana, de canto melodioso e plumagem colorida, das famílias dos pripídeos, dos trogloditídeos e dos tamnofilídeos

Frequency rank: #87,638 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "realejo"?
"realejo" is spelled R-E-A-L-E-J-O. The IPA pronunciation is /χe.a.ˈle.ʒu/.
What does "realejo" mean?
As a noun, "realejo" means: instrumento que toca uma música predefinida quando se gira uma manivela
How do you pronounce "realejo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "realejo" is /χe.a.ˈle.ʒu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "realejo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.