cor de pulga

//ˈkoɾ dɨ ˈpul.ɡɐ// phrase

The verdict

“cor de pulga” 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
12
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: diz-se daquilo que tem, ou ficou com, tom acastanhado como a pulga

Key facts for cor de pulga
PropertyValue
Headwordcor de pulga
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/ˈkoɾ dɨ ˈpul.ɡɐ/
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cor de pulga” sits in Portuguese frequency

cor de pulga falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cor de pulga is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkoɾ dɨ ˈpul.ɡɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "diz-se daquilo que tem, ou ficou com, tom acastanhado como a pulga".

No misspelling variants are generated for cor de pulga 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 de pulga, spelled C-O-R- -D-E- -P-U-L-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    diz-se daquilo que tem, ou ficou com, tom acastanhado como a pulga

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cor de pulga"?
"cor de pulga" is spelled C-O-R- -D-E- -P-U-L-G-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈkoɾ dɨ ˈpul.ɡɐ/.
What does "cor de pulga" mean?
As a phrase, "cor de pulga" means: diz-se daquilo que tem, ou ficou com, tom acastanhado como a pulga
How do you pronounce "cor de pulga"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cor de pulga" is /ˈkoɾ dɨ ˈpul.ɡɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cor de pulga" come from?
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Using “cor de pulga”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-R- -D-E- -P-U-L-G-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /ˈkoɾ dɨ ˈpul.ɡɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.