selo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,354
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
selo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pequeno objeto de metal (placa, coluna, anel) usados como assinatura do proprietário para selar e autenticar documentos e cartas Pronounced /ˈse.lʊ/. It ranks #5,354 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with só and ser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈse.lʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for selo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈse.lʊ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,354 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for selo, with forms such as "eslo", "sello", and "seol". 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, "só", "ser", "seu", 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 selo, spelled S-E-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pequeno objeto de metal (placa, coluna, anel) usados como assinatura do proprietário para selar e autenticar documentos e cartas
- 2marca ou sinal feito com esse objeto
- 3pequena etiqueta gomada que se coloca em envios postais para pagar o valor do transporte
- 4marca oficial que indica a genuinidade de um produto
- 5marca registrada de alguns produtos
- 6empresa que fabrica, comercializa e divulga gravações de áudio em diversos formatos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eslo,sello,seol,sleo,sselo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for selo
Misspelling Variants of "selo"
Frequency rank: #5,354 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Portuguese index: