couraça
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,318
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
couraça is aPortuguesenoun. It means: armadura para as costas e o peito Pronounced /kow.ˈɾa.sɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couraça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kow.ˈɾa.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for couraça is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kow.ˈɾa.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #54,318 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 couraça 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 couraça, spelled C-O-U-R-A-Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1armadura para as costas e o peito
- 2invólucro protetor de certos animais
- 3revestimento de aço com que se protegem os navios encouraçados contra a artilharia; blindagem
- 4o que serve de amparo ou resguardo contra a maledicência e má sorte
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #54,318 in Portuguese
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