bruaca
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6 characters
Language
Portuguese
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bruaca is aPortuguesenoun. It means: espécie de grande mala de couro, feita de modo grosseiro ou simples, usada para o transporte de mercadorias, mantimentos, amostras e outras cargas em tropas com alimárias Pronounced /bɾuˈa.kɐ/ [bɾʊˈa.kɐ], AFI: /ˈbɾwa.kɐ/ (coloquial).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bruaca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɾuˈa.kɐ/ [bɾʊˈa.kɐ], AFI: /ˈbɾwa.kɐ/ (coloquial) |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bruaca is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɾuˈa.kɐ/ [bɾʊˈa.kɐ], AFI: /ˈbɾwa.kɐ/ (coloquial). It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bruaca 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 bruaca, spelled B-R-U-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1espécie de grande mala de couro, feita de modo grosseiro ou simples, usada para o transporte de mercadorias, mantimentos, amostras e outras cargas em tropas com alimárias
- 2bolsa de couro grande, geralmente presa por uma alça e usada na lateral ou nas costas
- 3espécie de saquinho de colocar sal
- 4mulher muito feia e velha
- 5mulher faladeira, mal-humorada
- 6prostituta feia e velha
- 7alimento, similar a uma panqueca, próprio do estado brasileiro do Ceará
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