beco sem saída
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14 characters
Language
Portuguese
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beco sem saída is aPortuguesephrase. It means: beco ou rua estreita cuja entrada é também a saída Pronounced /ˈbe.ku ˈsẽj̃ saˈi.dɐ/ [ˈbe.ku ˈsẽɪ̯̃ saˈi.dɐ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beco sem saída |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈbe.ku ˈsẽj̃ saˈi.dɐ/ [ˈbe.ku ˈsẽɪ̯̃ saˈi.dɐ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for beco sem saída is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbe.ku ˈsẽj̃ saˈi.dɐ/ [ˈbe.ku ˈsẽɪ̯̃ saˈi.dɐ]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for beco sem saída in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 beco sem saída, spelled B-E-C-O- -S-E-M- -S-A-Í-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1beco ou rua estreita cuja entrada é também a saída
- 2situação embaraçosa ou dificultosa, sem solução aparente, da qual não se pode evitar
- 3caminho que não leva a lugar nenhum
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