borrifar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#58,369
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
borrifar is aPortugueseverb. It means: deitar borrifos em Pronounced /bo.χɪ.ˈfaɾ/, /bo.χɪ.ˈfa/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borrifar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bo.χɪ.ˈfaɾ/, /bo.χɪ.ˈfa/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for borrifar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bo.χɪ.ˈfaɾ/, /bo.χɪ.ˈfa/. Corpus data places it at rank #58,369 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for borrifar 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 borrifar, spelled B-O-R-R-I-F-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1deitar borrifos em
- 2disseminar em pequenas porções
- 3cair chuva minúscula
- 4não dar bola, não ligar, não se preocupar
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Frequency rank: #58,369 in Portuguese
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