velocímetro

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for velocímetro is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /vɨ.lu.ˈsi.mɨ.tɾu/. Corpus data places it at rank #60,693 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "aparelho que mede ou mostra a velocidade de um veículo".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for velocímetro in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 velocímetro, spelled V-E-L-O-C-Í-M-E-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.