anã branca
The verdict
“anã branca” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: estágio evolutivo final de estrelas que cessaram sua fusão nuclear e cuja massa não é suficiente para se tornarem estrelas de nêutrons ou buracos negros (têm até dez vezes a massa do Sol e compõem ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anã branca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /aˈnɐ̃ ˈbɾɐ̃.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “anã branca” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for anã branca is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aˈnɐ̃ ˈbɾɐ̃.kɐ/. 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: "estágio evolutivo final de estrelas que cessaram sua fusão nuclear e cuja massa não é suficiente para se tornarem estrelas de nêutrons ou buracos negros (têm até dez vezes a massa do Sol e compõem ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for anã branca 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 anã branca, spelled A-N-Ã- -B-R-A-N-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1estágio evolutivo final de estrelas que cessaram sua fusão nuclear e cuja massa não é suficiente para se tornarem estrelas de nêutrons ou buracos negros (têm até dez vezes a massa do Sol e compõem mais de 97% das estrelas da Via Láctea) tornando-se um remanescente de núcleo estelar composto principalmente de matéria degenerada cujo colapso é impedido graças ao princípio de exclusão de Pauli (dois elétrons não podem ocupar o mesmo estado quântico)
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Using “anã branca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-Ã- -B-R-A-N-C-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aˈnɐ̃ ˈbɾɐ̃.kɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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