valo
/ˈva.lʊ/
The verdict
“valo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,078 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,078
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - indivíduo dos valos, povo antigo que habitava a Sarmácia asiática
Corpus desk
Index PT-valo · valo · Portuguese
valo · rank #60,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,078
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH Vanuatu
Nearest frequency peer: Vanuatu (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “valo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tilápia
tilápia
39,946 corpus weight
- tuning
tuning
39,935 corpus weight
- tónico
tónico
39,933 corpus weight
- valo
valo
39,923 corpus weight
- Vanuatu
Vanuatu
39,921 corpus weight
- Waldomiro
Waldomiro
39,909 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “valo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈva.lʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “valo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
valo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,078 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈva.lʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "indivíduo dos valos, povo antigo que habitava a Sarmácia asiática".
No misspelling variants are generated for valo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is valo, spelled V-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1indivíduo dos valos, povo antigo que habitava a Sarmácia asiática
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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