bordejar
Letters
8 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
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bordejar is aPortugueseverb. It means: navegar em ziguezague, à vela, quando o vento não é favorável Pronounced /buɾ.dɨ.ˈʒaɾ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordejar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /buɾ.dɨ.ˈʒaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for bordejar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /buɾ.dɨ.ˈʒaɾ/. 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 misspelling variants are generated for bordejar 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 bordejar, spelled B-O-R-D-E-J-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1navegar em ziguezague, à vela, quando o vento não é favorável
- 2ir de um lado para outro, ziguezaguear
- 3cambalear, andar aos bordos
- 4jazer lateralmente a, adjacente a, à borda de, em se tratando de um território nacional a um outro território
- 5ficar lateralmente a, à borda de, um algo em relação a outro algo
- 6andar lateralmente a, à borda de
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