desfolhar
Letters
9 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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desfolhar is aPortugueseverb. It means: tirar as folhas ou as pétalas Pronounced /dɨʃ.fu.ˈʎaɾ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desfolhar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.fu.ˈʎaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for desfolhar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨʃ.fu.ˈʎaɾ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for desfolhar 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 desfolhar, spelled D-E-S-F-O-L-H-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tirar as folhas ou as pétalas
- 2descamisar, tirar o folhelho das espigas de milho
- 3tirar a virgindade a donzela; desvirginar
- 4perder as folhas ou pétalas
- 5envelhecer, estiolar
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