cor da pitanga
The verdict
“cor da pitanga” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: que ou aquilo que tem, ou ficou com, a cor da pitanga
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cor da pitanga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈkoʁ da piˈtɐ̃.ɡɐ/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cor da pitanga” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cor da pitanga is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkoʁ da piˈtɐ̃.ɡɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cor da pitanga 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 cor da pitanga, spelled C-O-R- -D-A- -P-I-T-A-N-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que ou aquilo que tem, ou ficou com, a cor da pitanga
- 2ficar enrubescido; envergonhado
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Using “cor da pitanga”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-R- -D-A- -P-I-T-A-N-G-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkoʁ da piˈtɐ̃.ɡɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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