sapato

//sɐ.ˈpa.tu// noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,081

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

sapato is aPortuguesenoun. It means: peça de calçado que cobre só o pé Pronounced /sɐ.ˈpa.tu/. It ranks #7,081 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with sapo and sarado.

Key facts for sapato
PropertyValue
Headwordsapato
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/sɐ.ˈpa.tu/
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,081
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sapato is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɐ.ˈpa.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,081 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "peça de calçado que cobre só o pé".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for sapato, with forms such as "aspato", "saapto", and "sapaot". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sapo", "sarado", "santo", 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 sapato, spelled S-A-P-A-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    peça de calçado que cobre só o pé

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aspato,saapto,sapaot,sapatto,sappato,saptao,spaato,ssapato

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sapato

Misspelling Variants of "sapato"

aspato6saapto6sapaot6sapatto7sappato7saptao6spaato6ssapato7
Misspelling Variants of "sapato"

Frequency rank: #7,081 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sapato"?
"sapato" is spelled S-A-P-A-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is /sɐ.ˈpa.tu/.
What does "sapato" mean?
As a noun, "sapato" means: peça de calçado que cobre só o pé
What words are commonly confused with "sapato"?
"sapato" is commonly confused with "sapo", "sarado", "santo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sapato"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sapato" is /sɐ.ˈpa.tu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sapato" come from?
"sapato" 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.