véu
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,773
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
véu is aPortuguesenoun. It means: tecido mais ou menos transparente Pronounced /ˈvɛw/. Often confused with vi and vez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | véu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɛw/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for véu is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvɛw/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,773 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for véu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vi", "vez", "viu", 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 véu, spelled V-É-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tecido mais ou menos transparente
- 2película
- 3cortina
- 4aparência
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Frequency rank: #11,773 in Portuguese
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