bruaca

//bɾuˈa.kɐ/ [bɾʊˈa.kɐ], AFI: /ˈbɾwa.kɐ/ (coloquial)/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

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).

Key facts for bruaca
PropertyValue
Headwordbruaca
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/bɾuˈa.kɐ/ [bɾʊˈa.kɐ], AFI: /ˈbɾwa.kɐ/ (coloquial)
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bruaca 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 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

  1. 1
    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
  2. 2
    bolsa de couro grande, geralmente presa por uma alça e usada na lateral ou nas costas
  3. 3
    espécie de saquinho de colocar sal
  4. 4
    mulher muito feia e velha
  5. 5
    mulher faladeira, mal-humorada
  6. 6
    prostituta feia e velha
  7. 7
    alimento, similar a uma panqueca, próprio do estado brasileiro do Ceará

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bruaca"?
"bruaca" is spelled B-R-U-A-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is /bɾuˈa.kɐ/ [bɾʊˈa.kɐ], AFI: /ˈbɾwa.kɐ/ (coloquial).
What does "bruaca" mean?
As a noun, "bruaca" 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
How do you pronounce "bruaca"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bruaca" is /bɾuˈa.kɐ/ [bɾʊˈa.kɐ], AFI: /ˈbɾwa.kɐ/ (coloquial). Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bruaca" come from?
"bruaca" 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.