cerrado
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
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cerrado is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vaste type de biome de savane néotropicale très dense propre à la partie centrale du Brésil, au sud de la jungle amazonienne, couvrant près du quart de la superficie totale du pays, de biodiversité... Pronounced \sɛ.ʁa.do\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerrado |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.ʁa.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cerrado is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ.ʁa.do\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cerrado in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French 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 French form is cerrado, spelled C-E-R-R-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vaste type de biome de savane néotropicale très dense propre à la partie centrale du Brésil, au sud de la jungle amazonienne, couvrant près du quart de la superficie totale du pays, de biodiversité très élevée, abritant de nombreuses espèces animales (e.g. fourmilier, jaguar, capybara, etc.) et végétales (dont plus de 425 espèces d'arbres) protégées, et caractérisé par d'amples extrêmes saisonnières en température et en précipitations.
- 2Région précise où l'on retrouve ce type de biome.
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