vírus
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,346
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
vírus is aPortuguesenoun. It means: agente infeccioso microscópico, que causa várias doenças (AIDS, gripe, etc.) e provoca a produção de anticorpos Pronounced /ˈvi.ɾuʃ/. It ranks #2,346 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with viu and Vis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vírus |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvi.ɾuʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for vírus is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvi.ɾuʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,346 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for vírus, with forms such as "vríus", "vvírus", and "vírrus". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "viu", "Vis", "vous", 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 vírus, spelled V-Í-R-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1agente infeccioso microscópico, que causa várias doenças (AIDS, gripe, etc.) e provoca a produção de anticorpos
- 2programa oculto de computador que se instala no sistema operacional da máquina, ativando-se num determinado dia para provocar danos em arquivos, outros programas, etc
- 3coisa que se reproduza de forma viral, como ideias
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: vríus,vvírus,vírrus,vírsu,víruss,víurs,ívrus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vírus
Misspelling Variants of "vírus"
Frequency rank: #2,346 in Portuguese
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