catapulta
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,236
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
catapulta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: (Diacronismo: antigo): máquina de guerra que se destinava a lançar, sobre o inimigo, pedras, dardos ou outros projéteis de grande tamanho Pronounced /kɐ.tɐ.ˈpuɫ.tɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catapulta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.tɐ.ˈpuɫ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for catapulta is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.tɐ.ˈpuɫ.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #45,236 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for catapulta, with forms such as "actapulta", "caatpulta", and "catapluta". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 catapulta, spelled C-A-T-A-P-U-L-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Diacronismo: antigo): máquina de guerra que se destinava a lançar, sobre o inimigo, pedras, dardos ou outros projéteis de grande tamanho
- 2(Regionalismo: Brasil): aparelho que, instalado em porta-aviões, se destina a lançar aviões, dando-lhes forte impulso inicial para o voo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: actapulta,caatpulta,catapluta,catappulta,catapulat,catapullta,catapultta,cataputla,catauplta,catpaulta,cattapulta,ccatapulta,ctaapulta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "catapulta"
Frequency rank: #45,236 in Portuguese
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