sorteio

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sorteio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /suɾ.ˈtɐj.u/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,767 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "método de distribuição de algo indivisível entre vários, dos que um só será agraciado, baseado em fórmulas de casualidade, de acaso; ato de rifar (sortear)".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sorteio, with forms such as "osrteio", "soretio", and "sorrteio". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sorte", "sortear", "solteiro", 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 sorteio, spelled S-O-R-T-E-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.