atirar pérolas aos porcos
The verdict
“atirar pérolas aos porcos” 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
- 25
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: no catolicismo, alegoria proferida no Sermão da Montanha onde as pérolas simbolizam, segundo João Crisóstomo, os sacramentos e os "porcos" são, segundo Agostinho de Hipona, os "desprezadores imorais"
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atirar pérolas aos porcos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /a.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ) ˈpɛ.ɾo.lɐz aws ˈpɔʁ.kus/ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “atirar pérolas aos porcos” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for atirar pérolas aos porcos is 25 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /a.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ) ˈpɛ.ɾo.lɐz aws ˈpɔʁ.kus/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for atirar pérolas aos porcos 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 atirar pérolas aos porcos, spelled A-T-I-R-A-R- -P-É-R-O-L-A-S- -A-O-S- -P-O-R-C-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1no catolicismo, alegoria proferida no Sermão da Montanha onde as pérolas simbolizam, segundo João Crisóstomo, os sacramentos e os "porcos" são, segundo Agostinho de Hipona, os "desprezadores imorais"
- 2dar algo de valor a quem não o aprecia, não o compreende ou não o merece
- 3desperdiçar o tempo explicando algo a alguém incapaz de compreender ou aceitar o ensinamento
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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-T-I-R-A-R- -P-É-R-O-L-A-S- -A-O-S- -P-O-R-C-O-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /a.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ) ˈpɛ.ɾo.lɐz aws ˈpɔʁ.kus/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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