varíola

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for varíola is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /vɐ.ˈɾi.u.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #28,414 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "doença contagiosa aguda (oficialmente declarada extinta do planeta na década de 1970), de origem viral, caracterizada por febre, dor no corpo, vômitos e lesões cutâneas".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for varíola, with forms such as "avríola", "varoíla", and "varríola". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "viola", "vários", "varela", 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 varíola, spelled V-A-R-Í-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.