soluço

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#28,035

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

soluço is aPortuguesenoun. It means: inalação rápida e involuntária de ar que acompanha um espasmo do diafragma e é repentinamente interrompida pelo fechamento da glote, produzindo um som agudo e curto Often confused with suco and sulco.

Key facts for soluço
PropertyValue
Headwordsoluço
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#28,035
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for soluço is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #28,035 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "inalação rápida e involuntária de ar que acompanha um espasmo do diafragma e é repentinamente interrompida pelo fechamento da glote, produzindo um som agudo e curto".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for soluço, with forms such as "osluço", "slouço", and "solluço". 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, "suco", "sulco", "solo", 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 soluço, spelled S-O-L-U-Ç-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    inalação rápida e involuntária de ar que acompanha um espasmo do diafragma e é repentinamente interrompida pelo fechamento da glote, produzindo um som agudo e curto

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osluço,slouço,solluço,soluoç,solçuo,soulço,ssoluço

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for soluço

Misspelling Variants of "soluço"

osluço6slouço6solluço7soluoç6solçuo6soulço6ssoluço7
Misspelling Variants of "soluço"

Frequency rank: #28,035 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "soluço"?
"soluço" is spelled S-O-L-U-Ç-O.
What does "soluço" mean?
As a noun, "soluço" means: inalação rápida e involuntária de ar que acompanha um espasmo do diafragma e é repentinamente interrompida pelo fechamento da glote, produzindo um som agudo e curto
What words are commonly confused with "soluço"?
"soluço" is commonly confused with "suco", "sulco", "solo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "soluço" come from?
"soluço" 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.