achicar
Letters
7 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
achicar is aPortugueseverb. It means: achicar, esvaziar a água do interior de uma embarcação
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achicar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for achicar is 7 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for achicar 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 achicar, spelled A-C-H-I-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1achicar, esvaziar a água do interior de uma embarcação
- 2tirar a água de um poço ou similar
- 3secar ou diminuir o caudal de uma nascente, de um rio ou similar
- 4esgotar, minorar, minguar, decrescer, reduzir
- 5consumir; gastar pelo uso ou tempo
- 6extenuar; perder a saúde; debilitar-se
- 7humilhar, rebaixar
- 8achicar, amedrontar-se, acovardar-se; apoucar-se
- 9nos jogos da baralha, num determinado lance jogar uma carta de inferior valor, tendo outra superior
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