camafeu
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,204
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
camafeu is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pedra preciosa, com duas camadas diferentes na cor, sobre uma das quais se lavrou uma figura em relevo, à qual serve de fundo a outra camada Pronounced /kɐ.mɐ.ˈfew/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camafeu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.mɐ.ˈfew/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for camafeu is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.mɐ.ˈfew/. Corpus data places it at rank #80,204 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for camafeu 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 camafeu, spelled C-A-M-A-F-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pedra preciosa, com duas camadas diferentes na cor, sobre uma das quais se lavrou uma figura em relevo, à qual serve de fundo a outra camada
- 2mulher muito feia
- 3selo dos reis de Portugal
- 4efígie dos reis nas moedas
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Frequency rank: #80,204 in Portuguese
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