vasto

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for vasto is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvaʃ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,553 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "de grande extensão".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for vasto, with forms such as "avsto", "vasot", and "vassto". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "voto", "vista", "visto", 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 vasto, spelled V-A-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.