usado

//u.ˈza.du// adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,089

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

usado is anPortugueseadj. It means: particípio passado do verbo usar Pronounced /u.ˈza.du/. It ranks #1,089 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with usar and usa.

Key facts for usado
PropertyValue
Headwordusado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/u.ˈza.du/
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,089
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for usado is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /u.ˈza.du/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,089 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "particípio passado do verbo usar".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for usado, with forms such as "uasdo", "usaddo", and "usaod". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "usar", "usa", "unido", 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 usado, spelled U-S-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    particípio passado do verbo usar

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: uasdo,usaddo,usaod,usdao,ussado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for usado

Misspelling Variants of "usado"

uasdo5usaddo6usaod5usdao5ussado6
Misspelling Variants of "usado"

Frequency rank: #1,089 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "usado"?
"usado" is spelled U-S-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is /u.ˈza.du/.
What does "usado" mean?
As an adj, "usado" means: particípio passado do verbo usar
What words are commonly confused with "usado"?
"usado" is commonly confused with "usar", "usa", "unido". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "usado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "usado" is /u.ˈza.du/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "usado" come from?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter U 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.