viu
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#499
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
viu is anPortugueseintj. It means: expressa enfatismo ou reforço de ênfase naquilo dito em mais diversos contextos como a exemplo, de irritação, desalento, impressão Pronounced /ˈviw/. It ranks #499 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with voz and voo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | /ˈviw/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for viu is 3 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈviw/. Corpus data places it at rank #499 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for viu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voz", "voo", "vós", 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 viu, spelled V-I-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1expressa enfatismo ou reforço de ênfase naquilo dito em mais diversos contextos como a exemplo, de irritação, desalento, impressão
- 2expressa enfatismo ou reforço de ênfase naquilo dito, comunicando de que é algo que se fica compreendido
Frequency rank: #499 in Portuguese
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