açorda
The verdict
“açorda” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: prato feito com pão esmigalhado, temperado com azeite e alho a que se podem juntar outros ingredientes
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | açorda |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ.ˈsoɾ.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “açorda” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for açorda is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.ˈsoɾ.dɐ/. 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: "prato feito com pão esmigalhado, temperado com azeite e alho a que se podem juntar outros ingredientes".
No misspelling variants are generated for açorda in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese 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 Portuguese form is açorda, spelled A-Ç-O-R-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1prato feito com pão esmigalhado, temperado com azeite e alho a que se podem juntar outros ingredientes
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “açorda”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-Ç-O-R-D-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɐ.ˈsoɾ.dɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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