apito de cachorro
The verdict
“apito de cachorro” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: tipo de apito que emite um som na faixa ultrassônica, que os humanos não podem ouvir, mas alguns outros animais podem, incluindo cães e gatos domésticos, e é usado em seu treinamento, inventado em ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apito de cachorro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /aˈpi.tu d͡ʒi kaˈʃo.ʁu/ [aˈpi.tu d͡ʒi kaˈʃo.hu] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apito de cachorro” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for apito de cachorro is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aˈpi.tu d͡ʒi kaˈʃo.ʁu/ [aˈpi.tu d͡ʒi kaˈʃo.hu]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for apito de cachorro 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 apito de cachorro, spelled A-P-I-T-O- -D-E- -C-A-C-H-O-R-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tipo de apito que emite um som na faixa ultrassônica, que os humanos não podem ouvir, mas alguns outros animais podem, incluindo cães e gatos domésticos, e é usado em seu treinamento, inventado em 1876 por Francis Galton
- 2comunicação de ideias políticas, muitas vezes controversas, em linguagem codificada, de forma que apenas um pequeno grupo de eleitores as entende como devem ser entendidas
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Using “apito de cachorro”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-P-I-T-O- -D-E- -C-A-C-H-O-R-R-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aˈpi.tu d͡ʒi kaˈʃo.ʁu/ [aˈpi.tu d͡ʒi kaˈʃo.hu] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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