cara ou coroa

//ˈka.ɾɐ o(w) koˈɾo.ɐ/ [ˈka.ɾɐ o(ʊ̯) koˈɾo.ɐ]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

cara ou coroa is aPortuguesephrase. It means: prática de jogar para o ar uma moeda após duas partes haverem escolhido qual face cada uma prefere e, ao cair com um dos lados para cima, este determinará qual delas venceu o sorteio, de modo que e... Pronounced /ˈka.ɾɐ o(w) koˈɾo.ɐ/ [ˈka.ɾɐ o(ʊ̯) koˈɾo.ɐ].

Key facts for cara ou coroa
PropertyValue
Headwordcara ou coroa
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/ˈka.ɾɐ o(w) koˈɾo.ɐ/ [ˈka.ɾɐ o(ʊ̯) koˈɾo.ɐ]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cara ou coroa 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 cara ou coroa is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈka.ɾɐ o(w) koˈɾo.ɐ/ [ˈka.ɾɐ o(ʊ̯) koˈɾo.ɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cara ou coroa 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 cara ou coroa, spelled C-A-R-A- -O-U- -C-O-R-O-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    prática de jogar para o ar uma moeda após duas partes haverem escolhido qual face cada uma prefere e, ao cair com um dos lados para cima, este determinará qual delas venceu o sorteio, de modo que esta aleatoriedade confira a cada lado cinquenta por cento de chance de acerto
  2. 2
    modo de sorteio antes de uma partida, realizado pelo árbitro desta, onde os capitães de cada equipe podem escolher em qual das metades do campo preferem iniciar jogando e/ou aquele que dará o pontapé inicial (o que, automaticamente, será invertido no meio tempo seguinte) ou, ainda, numa disputa de pênaltis, qual dos times começará chutando ou defendendo
  3. 3
    sorteio realizado em esportes com dois contendores para escolha de campo ou quem dá início ao jogo, set, etc.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cara ou coroa"?
"cara ou coroa" is spelled C-A-R-A- -O-U- -C-O-R-O-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈka.ɾɐ o(w) koˈɾo.ɐ/ [ˈka.ɾɐ o(ʊ̯) koˈɾo.ɐ].
What does "cara ou coroa" mean?
As a phrase, "cara ou coroa" means: prática de jogar para o ar uma moeda após duas partes haverem escolhido qual face cada uma prefere e, ao cair com um dos lados para cima, este determinará qual delas venceu o sorteio, de modo que e...
How do you pronounce "cara ou coroa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cara ou coroa" is /ˈka.ɾɐ o(w) koˈɾo.ɐ/ [ˈka.ɾɐ o(ʊ̯) koˈɾo.ɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cara ou coroa" come from?
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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.