tojo

//ˈto.ʒu// noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#75,171

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tojo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome vulgar de vários arbustos espinhosos que crescem nos terrenos áridos; planta arbustiva espinhosa frequente nas matas portuguesas Pronounced /ˈto.ʒu/.

Key facts for tojo
PropertyValue
Headwordtojo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈto.ʒu/
Letters4
Frequency rank#75,171
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for tojo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈto.ʒu/. Corpus data places it at rank #75,171 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "nome vulgar de vários arbustos espinhosos que crescem nos terrenos áridos; planta arbustiva espinhosa frequente nas matas portuguesas".

No misspelling variants are generated for tojo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 tojo, spelled T-O-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    nome vulgar de vários arbustos espinhosos que crescem nos terrenos áridos; planta arbustiva espinhosa frequente nas matas portuguesas

Frequency rank: #75,171 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tojo"?
"tojo" is spelled T-O-J-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈto.ʒu/.
What does "tojo" mean?
As a noun, "tojo" means: nome vulgar de vários arbustos espinhosos que crescem nos terrenos áridos; planta arbustiva espinhosa frequente nas matas portuguesas
How do you pronounce "tojo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tojo" is /ˈto.ʒu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tojo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.