respiratório
The verdict
“respiratório” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #23,489 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #23,489
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 12
- letters
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - relativo à respiração
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | respiratório |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #23,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “respiratório” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for respiratório is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #23,489 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relativo à respiração".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for respiratório, with forms such as "erspiratório", "repsiratório", and "resipratório". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is respiratório, spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-T-Ó-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1relativo à respiração
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erspiratório,repsiratório,resipratório,respiartório,respiratróio,respirattório,respiratóiro,respiratóroi,respiratórrio,respiraótrio,respirratório,respirtaório,resppiratório,respriatório,resspiratório,rrespiratório,rsepiratório
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of respiratório - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “respiratório”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-E-S-P-I-R-A-T-Ó-R-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- 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.