elefante branco
Letters
15 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
elefante branco is aPortuguesephrase. It means: elefante albino, animal considerado sagrado em países como Camboja, Laos, Myanmar e Tailândia, por supostamente ser uma figura ligada ao nascimento de Buda Pronounced /e.leˈfɐ̃.t͡ʃi ˈbɾɐ̃.ku/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elefante branco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /e.leˈfɐ̃.t͡ʃi ˈbɾɐ̃.ku/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for elefante branco is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /e.leˈfɐ̃.t͡ʃi ˈbɾɐ̃.ku/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for elefante branco in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 elefante branco, spelled E-L-E-F-A-N-T-E- -B-R-A-N-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1elefante albino, animal considerado sagrado em países como Camboja, Laos, Myanmar e Tailândia, por supostamente ser uma figura ligada ao nascimento de Buda
- 2presente recebido que, apesar de caro ou bonito, é inútil ou incômodo
- 3obra grandiosa que se revela sem utilidade ou importância, de manutenção custosa
- 4obra pública, via de regra interminável ou abandonada, que se revela exageradamente custosa e sem uso pela população
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