buril

//bu.ˈɾiɫ// noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

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buril is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ferramenta de aço com ponta oblíqua cortante, usado na gravação em metal ou madeira Pronounced /bu.ˈɾiɫ/.

Key facts for buril
PropertyValue
Headwordburil
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/bu.ˈɾiɫ/
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

buril 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 buril is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bu.ˈɾiɫ/. 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 buril 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 buril, spelled B-U-R-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ferramenta de aço com ponta oblíqua cortante, usado na gravação em metal ou madeira
  2. 2
    ferramenta similar usada para lavrar pedra
  3. 3
    Derivação: por metonímia (da acp. 1) gênero de gravura em placa de metal na qual se trabalha diretamente com o buril; gravura a talho-doce, gravura a buril
  4. 4
    Derivação: por metonímia (da acp. 1) a placa ou estampa gravada por esse processo
  5. 5
    Derivação: por metonímia (da acp. 1) modo ou arte de gravar, lavrar ou esculpir com buril
  6. 6
    (Derivação: sentido figurado) modo de escrever cortante, firme, claro, ou estilo rendilhado
  7. 7
    (Derivação: sentido figurado) aquilo que grava ou inscreve duradouramente

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "buril"?
"buril" is spelled B-U-R-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is /bu.ˈɾiɫ/.
What does "buril" mean?
As a noun, "buril" means: ferramenta de aço com ponta oblíqua cortante, usado na gravação em metal ou madeira
How do you pronounce "buril"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "buril" is /bu.ˈɾiɫ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "buril" come from?
"buril" 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.