calejar

//kɐ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ// verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

calejar is aPortugueseverb. It means: criar ou adquirir calos ou calosidades Pronounced /kɐ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ/.

Key facts for calejar
PropertyValue
Headwordcalejar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
IPA/kɐ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ/
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

calejar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for calejar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ/. 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 misspelling variants are generated for calejar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 calejar, spelled C-A-L-E-J-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    criar ou adquirir calos ou calosidades
  2. 2
    tornar(-se) empedernido, insensível; acostumar(-se) à dor, ao sofrimento; endurecer(-se)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "calejar"?
"calejar" is spelled C-A-L-E-J-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is /kɐ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ/.
What does "calejar" mean?
As a verb, "calejar" means: criar ou adquirir calos ou calosidades
How do you pronounce "calejar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "calejar" is /kɐ.lɨ.ˈʒaɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "calejar" come from?
"calejar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.