adelha
Letters
6 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
adelha is aPortuguesenoun. It means: peça do moinho tradicional composta por uma pequena caixa sob a moega que recolhe o grão que dela cai, seguida por um canal de madeira que conduz o grão para a mó Pronounced /ɐ.ˈdɐ(j).ʎɐ/ ou /ɐ.ˈde.ʎɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adelha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ.ˈdɐ(j).ʎɐ/ ou /ɐ.ˈde.ʎɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for adelha is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.ˈdɐ(j).ʎɐ/ ou /ɐ.ˈde.ʎɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for adelha 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 adelha, spelled A-D-E-L-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1peça do moinho tradicional composta por uma pequena caixa sob a moega que recolhe o grão que dela cai, seguida por um canal de madeira que conduz o grão para a mó
- 2caixa em forma de pirâmide invertida onde está o grão de cereal que lentamente vai caindo na mó
- 3peúga sem pé nem calcanhar
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