agulheta
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8 characters
Language
Portuguese
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agulheta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: agulha grande, grossa, achatada e de fundo largo, para enfiar nastros, fitas, cordões etc. Pronounced /ɐ.ɡu.ˈʎe.tɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agulheta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ.ɡu.ˈʎe.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for agulheta is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.ɡu.ˈʎe.tɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for agulheta 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 agulheta, spelled A-G-U-L-H-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1agulha grande, grossa, achatada e de fundo largo, para enfiar nastros, fitas, cordões etc.
- 2extremidade metállica de cordões, com que se abotôam espartilhos, botas, etc.
- 3peça de metal que se atarraxa na extremidade de saída das mangueiras de grande pressão para que o jato de água jorre com mais força e possa ser mais facilmente dirigido
- 4bombeiro que trabalha com agulhetas de incêndio
- 5remate de metal colocado na extremidade dos cordões de certos uniformes
- 6o mesmo que caruma ('folha', 'quantidade')
- 7gancho com que as mulheres prendem o cabelo
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