draga
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,929
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
draga is aPortuguesenoun. It means: embarcação ou estrutura flutuante destinada a retirar areia, lama ou lodo do fundo do mar, de rios e canais Pronounced /ˈdɾa.ɡɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɾa.ɡɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for draga is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɾa.ɡɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #54,929 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for draga 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 draga, spelled D-R-A-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1embarcação ou estrutura flutuante destinada a retirar areia, lama ou lodo do fundo do mar, de rios e canais
- 2aparelho com que se tira areia, lodo, entulho, etc., do fundo dos rios, dos portos de mar, etc.
- 3cada um dos dois madeiros de castanho, que revestem, em todo comprimento a extremidade superior do costado do barco
- 4qualquer veículo velho
- 5arma de fogo; revólver
- 6aquele que come muito; comilão
- 7time medíocre ou em má fase
- 8situação em que se está há algum tempo com mau êxito nas partidas
- 9circunstância ou situação em que não se tem dinheiro
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #54,929 in Portuguese
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