em cima
Letters
7 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
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em cima is aPortuguesephrase. It means: na parte mais elevada de alguma coisa; no alto
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | em cima |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for em cima is 7 letters long, classified as aphrase. 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 misspelling variants are generated for em cima 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 em cima, spelled E-M- -C-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1na parte mais elevada de alguma coisa; no alto
- 2garantido, assegurado
- 3muito de perto de modo a inibir comportamento que considera inadequado e condicionar a comportamento que considera adequado
- 4muito de perto de modo a não deixar passar nada sem que note
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Nearby Portuguese words
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