astrágalo
The verdict
“astrágalo” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: nome do osso tálus, na antiga nomenclatura médica
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astrágalo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /asˈtɾa.ɡa.lu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “astrágalo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for astrágalo is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /asˈtɾa.ɡa.lu/. 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 astrágalo 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 astrágalo, spelled A-S-T-R-Á-G-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome do osso tálus, na antiga nomenclatura médica
- 2tipo de moldura na parte que encima uma coluna, fina e arredondada, sobre o fuste
- 3Por extensão, toda moldura que arremata algo na alvenaria, marcenaria, decoração, etc.
- 4gênero de leguminosa com mais de mil e setecentas espécies, nativa das zonas temperadas do Hemisfério Norte
- 5nome comum do arbusto asiático Astracantha gummifera, do qual se extrai a goma adraganta
- 6na Grécia Antiga o uso dado ao tálus, por seu formado cúbico, como um tipo de dado
- 7filete com que era ornada a boca de peças de artilharia
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Using “astrágalo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-S-T-R-Á-G-A-L-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /asˈtɾa.ɡa.lu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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