rondó

//ʁõˈdɔ// noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

rondó is aPortuguesenoun. It means: poema de forma fixa octossílabo ou decassílabo com a seguinte estrutura: uma quintilha, um terceto e uma outra quintilha, também conhecida como refrão Pronounced /ʁõˈdɔ/.

Key facts for rondó
PropertyValue
Headwordrondó
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ʁõˈdɔ/
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

rondó is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for rondó is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʁõˈdɔ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rondó 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 rondó, spelled R-O-N-D-Ó, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    poema de forma fixa octossílabo ou decassílabo com a seguinte estrutura: uma quintilha, um terceto e uma outra quintilha, também conhecida como refrão
  2. 2
    composição musical que encerra uma sonata ou sinfonia clássica caracterizada por um frase musical (o refrão) intercalada com outras coplas
  3. 3
    dança cantada de origem francesa, tornando-se popular na Alemanha e Itália sobretudo na forma instrumental
  4. 4
    composição musical que intercala um tema central com outros temas

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rondó"?
"rondó" is spelled R-O-N-D-Ó. The IPA pronunciation is /ʁõˈdɔ/.
What does "rondó" mean?
As a noun, "rondó" means: poema de forma fixa octossílabo ou decassílabo com a seguinte estrutura: uma quintilha, um terceto e uma outra quintilha, também conhecida como refrão
How do you pronounce "rondó"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rondó" is /ʁõˈdɔ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rondó" come from?
"rondó" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.