vídeo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for vídeo is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvi.dju/. Corpus data places it at rank #249 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relativo à gravação de determinadas imagens e de áudios num suporte magnético e sua reprodução num televisor".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for vídeo, with forms such as "vdíeo", "vvídeo", and "víddeo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vivo", "vive", "vier", 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 vídeo, spelled V-Í-D-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.