bico de pena
Letters
12 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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0
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bico de pena is aPortuguesephrase. It means: parte final da pena de ave, aparada de modo a segurar uma certa quantidade de tinta e apontada para que esta flua em traços finos durante a escrita Pronounced /ˈbi.ku d͡ʒi ˈpẽ.nɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bico de pena |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈbi.ku d͡ʒi ˈpẽ.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for bico de pena is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbi.ku d͡ʒi ˈpẽ.nɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bico de pena 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 bico de pena, spelled B-I-C-O- -D-E- -P-E-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1parte final da pena de ave, aparada de modo a segurar uma certa quantidade de tinta e apontada para que esta flua em traços finos durante a escrita
- 2o tipo de escrita por esta produzido
- 3a ponta metálica desenvolvida para conferir maior segurança, consistência e durabilidade à pena e, depois, usada nas canetas-tinteiro
- 4tipo de desenho a nanquim feito usando-se vários tamanhos de ponta com espessuras variadas do traço
- 5a técnica de produção desse tipo de desenho
- 6forma irônica de denominar o sistema eleitoral vigente na Primeira República (1889-1930) no qual o voto era escrito a descoberto, mas a contabilização desses se dava pelo que cada mesário descrevia na ata, o que permitia amplas fraudes no resultado
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