zero
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,031
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
zero is aPortuguesenum. It means: cardinalidade do conjunto vazio, o número de elementos de um conjunto que não tem elementos Pronounced /ˈzɛ.ɾu/. It ranks #2,031 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with Zeus and zé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zero |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Num |
| IPA | /ˈzɛ.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for zero is 4 letters long, classified as anum, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈzɛ.ɾu/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,031 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for zero, with forms such as "ezro", "zeor", and "zerro". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Zeus", "zé", "zen", 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 zero, spelled Z-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1cardinalidade do conjunto vazio, o número de elementos de um conjunto que não tem elementos
- 2número representado por 0 em algarismos arábicos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ezro,zeor,zerro,zreo,zzero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for zero
Misspelling Variants of "zero"
Frequency rank: #2,031 in Portuguese
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