chicana
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#86,253
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chicana is aPortuguesenoun. It means: artifício de se usar abusivamente dos meios judiciais, via de regra para retardar o andamento de um processo ou a prolatação de uma sentença que já se sabe, o advogado, ser adversa aos interesses q... Pronounced /ʃiˈkɐ̃.nɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicana |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃiˈkɐ̃.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for chicana is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʃiˈkɐ̃.nɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #86,253 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 misspelling variants are generated for chicana 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 chicana, spelled C-H-I-C-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1artifício de se usar abusivamente dos meios judiciais, via de regra para retardar o andamento de um processo ou a prolatação de uma sentença que já se sabe, o advogado, ser adversa aos interesses que defende
- 2uso de argumentos sabidamente falsos ou meramente provocativos, numa tentativa de induzir a erro (juiz, testemunha, a parte contrária), ou apenas repetidos ou protelatórios, dificultando ou retardando o prosseguimento dos atos processuais
- 3proposição de ação judicial, ou contestação em um processo, com a intenção de prejudicar alguém; litigar com fim de prejudicar
- 4meio elaborado para enganar outrem
Frequency rank: #86,253 in Portuguese
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