ala
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,137
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ala is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto de objetos dispostos de maneira a formar uma linha Pronounced /ˈa.lɐ/. It ranks #6,137 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with As and ao.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ala |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈa.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ala is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈa.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,137 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ala in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ala, spelled A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conjunto de objetos dispostos de maneira a formar uma linha
- 2subconjunto em um grupo de indivíduos (especialmente um partido político) que compartilham ideias semelhantes:
- 3extensão do corpo principal de um prédio
- 4flanco das legiões de infantaria ou cavalaria
- 5parte do campo de jogo ou da quadra próxima às suas linhas laterais
- 6jogador que atua principalmente nesta faixa do campo ou da quadra
- 7cada uma das duas metades de um tabuleiro (dividido verticalmente)
- 8órgão responsável pelo voo em aves e insetos
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Frequency rank: #6,137 in Portuguese
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