receoso
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,134
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
receoso is anPortugueseadj. It means: estado ou condição de quem tem receio Pronounced /Rɨ.ˈsjo.zu/. Often confused with recurso and recesso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | receoso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /Rɨ.ˈsjo.zu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for receoso is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /Rɨ.ˈsjo.zu/. Corpus data places it at rank #49,134 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for receoso, with forms such as "erceoso", "rceeoso", and "recceoso". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "recurso", "recesso", "reverso", 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 receoso, spelled R-E-C-E-O-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1estado ou condição de quem tem receio
- 2medroso, pávido
- 3tímido, acanhado
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erceoso,rceeoso,recceoso,receoos,receosso,recesoo,recoeso,reecoso,rreceoso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for receoso
Misspelling Variants of "receoso"
Frequency rank: #49,134 in Portuguese
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