worker

//ˈwɜː.kə/ (britânico)/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#93,391

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

worker is aPortuguesenoun. It means: artesão, artífice, obreiro, operário, trabalhador Pronounced /ˈwɜː.kə/ (britânico).

Key facts for worker
PropertyValue
Headwordworker
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈwɜː.kə/ (britânico)
Letters6
Frequency rank#93,391
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of worker in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for worker is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈwɜː.kə/ (britânico). Corpus data places it at rank #93,391 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for worker 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 worker, spelled W-O-R-K-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    artesão, artífice, obreiro, operário, trabalhador
  2. 2
    pessoa que realiza trabalho num certo campo, atividade ou causa, como por exemplo numa pesquisa, numa causa social
  3. 3
    cada uma das peças eletrotipadas de um conjunto de placas de impressão
  4. 4
    inseto operário não reprodutivo (caso de abelhas, cupins, formigas, etc.), especializado na manutenção da coletividade
  5. 5
    inseto operário não reprodutivo (caso de abelhas, cupins, formigas, etc.), especializado na manutenção da coletividade
  6. 6
    thread que executa uma instância de tarefa específica dentro de um programa

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #93,391 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "worker"?
"worker" is spelled W-O-R-K-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈwɜː.kə/ (britânico).
What does "worker" mean?
As a noun, "worker" means: artesão, artífice, obreiro, operário, trabalhador
How do you pronounce "worker"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "worker" is /ˈwɜː.kə/ (britânico). Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "worker" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.