risco

//ˈRiʃ.ku// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,084

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

risco is aPortuguesenoun. It means: delineamento; modelo; plano; planta; sulco; traçado; traço Pronounced /ˈRiʃ.ku/. It ranks #1,084 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with riso and rise.

Key facts for risco
PropertyValue
Headwordrisco
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈRiʃ.ku/
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,084
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for risco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈRiʃ.ku/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,084 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for risco, with forms such as "irsco", "ricso", and "riscco". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "riso", "rise", "rito", 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 risco, spelled R-I-S-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    delineamento; modelo; plano; planta; sulco; traçado; traço
  2. 2
    possibilidade dum acontecimento futuro incerto; perigo

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: irsco,ricso,riscco,risoc,rissco,rrisco,rsico

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for risco

Misspelling Variants of "risco"

irsco5ricso5riscco6risoc5rissco6rrisco6rsico5
Misspelling Variants of "risco"

Frequency rank: #1,084 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "risco"?
"risco" is spelled R-I-S-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈRiʃ.ku/.
What does "risco" mean?
As a noun, "risco" means: delineamento; modelo; plano; planta; sulco; traçado; traço
What words are commonly confused with "risco"?
"risco" is commonly confused with "riso", "rise", "rito". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "risco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "risco" is /ˈRiʃ.ku/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "risco" come from?
"risco" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Portuguese index:

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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.