recado
/Rɨ.ˈka.du/
The verdict
“recado” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #4,673 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,673
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - participação ou aviso (verbal ou escrito, enviado por uma pessoa a outra)
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Rɨ.ˈka.du/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “recado” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for recado is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /Rɨ.ˈka.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,673 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for recado, with forms such as "ercado", "rceado", and "reacdo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "relato", "receio", "reparo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is recado, spelled R-E-C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1participação ou aviso (verbal ou escrito, enviado por uma pessoa a outra)
- 2mensagem
- 3censura
- 4ralho
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercado,rceado,reacdo,recaddo,recaod,reccado,recdao,rrecado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recado - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “recado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-E-C-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /Rɨ.ˈka.du/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “relato” - see the side-by-side comparison. recado vs relato
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.