farofa
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Language
Spanish
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farofa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acompañamiento tradicional y típico de la cocina brasileña cuyo ingrediente principal es la mandioca rallada de la cual se extrae el almidón. Pronounced [faˈɾofa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farofa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faˈɾofa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for farofa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faˈɾofa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acompañamiento tradicional y típico de la cocina brasileña cuyo ingrediente principal es la mandioca rallada de la cual se extrae el almidón.".
No misspelling variants are generated for farofa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 Spanish form is farofa, spelled F-A-R-O-F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acompañamiento tradicional y típico de la cocina brasileña cuyo ingrediente principal es la mandioca rallada de la cual se extrae el almidón.
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