school

//ˈsxoːl// noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,000

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

school is aPortuguesenoun. It means: escola, colégio: Pronounced /ˈsxoːl/. It ranks #6,000 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with shoot.

Key facts for school
PropertyValue
Headwordschool
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈsxoːl/
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,000
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for school is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsxoːl/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,000 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 school, with forms such as "cshool", "scchool", and "schhool". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "shoot", 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 school, spelled S-C-H-O-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    escola, colégio:
  2. 2
    faculdade, instituto, departamento, subdivisão de uma universidade
  3. 3
    escola, conjunto de seguidores de uma doutrina
  4. 4
    cardume:

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cshool,scchool,schhool,schol,scholo,schooll,scohol,shcool,sschool

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for school

Misspelling Variants of "school"

cshool6scchool7schhool7schol5scholo6schooll7scohol6shcool6
Misspelling Variants of "school"

Frequency rank: #6,000 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "school"?
"school" is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈsxoːl/.
What does "school" mean?
As a noun, "school" means: escola, colégio:
What words are commonly confused with "school"?
"school" is commonly confused with "shoot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "school"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "school" is /ˈsxoːl/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "school" come from?
"school" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter S 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.