dois-pontos
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11 characters
Language
Portuguese
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dois-pontos is aPortuguesenoun. It means: (:) sinal de pontuação que se coloca ao final de uma frase, para uma breve pausa e como sinal de continuação da ideia com exemplos, citações, enumeração ou maior clareza daquilo que se disse e, ain... Pronounced /ˌdojsˈpõ.tus/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dois-pontos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌdojsˈpõ.tus/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for dois-pontos is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌdojsˈpõ.tus/. 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 dois-pontos 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 dois-pontos, spelled D-O-I-S---P-O-N-T-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(:) sinal de pontuação que se coloca ao final de uma frase, para uma breve pausa e como sinal de continuação da ideia com exemplos, citações, enumeração ou maior clareza daquilo que se disse e, ainda, após um vocativo (como em cartas e correspondências oficiais - ofícios, requerimentos, etc)
- 2expressão catafórica usada na fala para dar ênfase ao que será declarado
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