águas passadas não movem moinho

//a.ɡwɐs paˈsa.dɐz ˈnɐ̃w̃ ˈmɔ.vẽj̃ ˈmɔ.ĩ.ɲu// phrase

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31 characters

Language

Portuguese

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águas passadas não movem moinho is aPortuguesephrase. It means: o passado não pode ser alterado nem controlado e deve ser aceito, perdoado ou esquecido Pronounced /a.ɡwɐs paˈsa.dɐz ˈnɐ̃w̃ ˈmɔ.vẽj̃ ˈmɔ.ĩ.ɲu/.

Key facts for águas passadas não movem moinho
PropertyValue
Headwordáguas passadas não movem moinho
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/a.ɡwɐs paˈsa.dɐz ˈnɐ̃w̃ ˈmɔ.vẽj̃ ˈmɔ.ĩ.ɲu/
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

águas passadas não movem moinho is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for águas passadas não movem moinho is 31 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.ɡwɐs paˈsa.dɐz ˈnɐ̃w̃ ˈmɔ.vẽj̃ ˈmɔ.ĩ.ɲu/. 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 águas passadas não movem moinho 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 águas passadas não movem moinho, spelled Á-G-U-A-S- -P-A-S-S-A-D-A-S- -N-Ã-O- -M-O-V-E-M- -M-O-I-N-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    o passado não pode ser alterado nem controlado e deve ser aceito, perdoado ou esquecido
  2. 2
    o que já aconteceu não deve continuar interferindo no presente

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "águas passadas não movem moinho"?
"águas passadas não movem moinho" is spelled Á-G-U-A-S- -P-A-S-S-A-D-A-S- -N-Ã-O- -M-O-V-E-M- -M-O-I-N-H-O. The IPA pronunciation is /a.ɡwɐs paˈsa.dɐz ˈnɐ̃w̃ ˈmɔ.vẽj̃ ˈmɔ.ĩ.ɲu/.
What does "águas passadas não movem moinho" mean?
As a phrase, "águas passadas não movem moinho" means: o passado não pode ser alterado nem controlado e deve ser aceito, perdoado ou esquecido
How do you pronounce "águas passadas não movem moinho"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "águas passadas não movem moinho" is /a.ɡwɐs paˈsa.dɐz ˈnɐ̃w̃ ˈmɔ.vẽj̃ ˈmɔ.ĩ.ɲu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.