caixeiro-viajante
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Language
Portuguese
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caixeiro-viajante is aPortuguesenoun. It means: vendedor que, representando uma empresa comercial, viaja de cidade em cidade levando amostras dos produtos aos comerciantes locais aos quais realiza a venda de lotes de mercadoria que aquela empres... Pronounced /kajˌʃe(j).ɾu.vi.aˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [kaɪ̯ˌʃe(ɪ̯).ɾu.vɪ.aˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi], AFI: /kajˌʃe(j).ɾu.vjaˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [kaɪ̯ˌʃe(ɪ̯).ɾu.vjaˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caixeiro-viajante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kajˌʃe(j).ɾu.vi.aˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [kaɪ̯ˌʃe(ɪ̯).ɾu.vɪ.aˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi], AFI: /kajˌʃe(j).ɾu.vjaˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [kaɪ̯ˌʃe(ɪ̯).ɾu.vjaˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for caixeiro-viajante is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kajˌʃe(j).ɾu.vi.aˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [kaɪ̯ˌʃe(ɪ̯).ɾu.vɪ.aˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi], AFI: /kajˌʃe(j).ɾu.vjaˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [kaɪ̯ˌʃe(ɪ̯).ɾu.vjaˈʒɐ̃.t͡ʃi]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for caixeiro-viajante 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 caixeiro-viajante, spelled C-A-I-X-E-I-R-O---V-I-A-J-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vendedor que, representando uma empresa comercial, viaja de cidade em cidade levando amostras dos produtos aos comerciantes locais aos quais realiza a venda de lotes de mercadoria que aquela empresa enviará, em geral recebendo como pagamento a comissão sobre as vendas realizadas
- 2, pessoa que viaja para a divulgação de um produto, ideia, etc.
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