beco sem saída

//ˈbe.ku ˈsẽj̃ saˈi.dɐ/ [ˈbe.ku ˈsẽɪ̯̃ saˈi.dɐ]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

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].

Key facts for beco sem saída
PropertyValue
Headwordbeco sem saída
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/ˈbe.ku ˈsẽj̃ saˈi.dɐ/ [ˈbe.ku ˈsẽɪ̯̃ saˈi.dɐ]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

beco sem saída is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    beco ou rua estreita cuja entrada é também a saída
  2. 2
    situação embaraçosa ou dificultosa, sem solução aparente, da qual não se pode evitar
  3. 3
    caminho que não leva a lugar nenhum

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "beco sem saída"?
"beco sem saída" is spelled B-E-C-O- -S-E-M- -S-A-Í-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈbe.ku ˈsẽj̃ saˈi.dɐ/ [ˈbe.ku ˈsẽɪ̯̃ saˈi.dɐ].
What does "beco sem saída" mean?
As a phrase, "beco sem saída" means: beco ou rua estreita cuja entrada é também a saída
How do you pronounce "beco sem saída"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "beco sem saída" is /ˈbe.ku ˈsẽj̃ saˈi.dɐ/ [ˈbe.ku ˈsẽɪ̯̃ saˈi.dɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "beco sem saída" come from?
"beco sem saída" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.