colchete
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8 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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colchete is aPortuguesenoun. It means: par de peças usadas como fecho de vestuário à guisa de botão, composto por gancho (o macho) e olhal (a fêmea) Pronounced /kowˈʃe.t͡ʃi/ [koʊ̯ˈʃe.t͡ʃi].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colchete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kowˈʃe.t͡ʃi/ [koʊ̯ˈʃe.t͡ʃi] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for colchete is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kowˈʃe.t͡ʃi/ [koʊ̯ˈʃe.t͡ʃi]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for colchete 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 colchete, spelled C-O-L-C-H-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1par de peças usadas como fecho de vestuário à guisa de botão, composto por gancho (o macho) e olhal (a fêmea)
- 2gancho duplo com o qual se penduram carnes, em açougues e frigoríficos
- 3sinal gráfico utilizado na língua escrita, na escrita musical, na matemática e também na informática: [ e ]
- 4elemento decorativo em pedra representando folhas estilizadas, de uso comum na arquitetura do estilo gótico
- 5o mesmo que chave
- 6em carpintaria, peça de apoio para a plaina em forma de cunha
- 7tipo de fecho em porteiras e cancelas
- 8tipo de porteira rústica, de arame, que se fecha por colchete
- 9gancho metálico com que se fixa uma prótese parcial a dente natural
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