emplastro

//ẽ.ˈplɐʃ.tɾu// noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#77,105

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

emplastro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: medicamento lutinoso que, amolecendo com o calor, adere à parte do corpo em que se aplica Pronounced /ẽ.ˈplɐʃ.tɾu/.

Key facts for emplastro
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Headwordemplastro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ẽ.ˈplɐʃ.tɾu/
Letters9
Frequency rank#77,105
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of emplastro in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for emplastro is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.ˈplɐʃ.tɾu/. Corpus data places it at rank #77,105 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for emplastro 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 emplastro, spelled E-M-P-L-A-S-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    medicamento lutinoso que, amolecendo com o calor, adere à parte do corpo em que se aplica
  2. 2
    conserto mal feito
  3. 3
    pessoa achacadiça
  4. 4
    remendo que destoa do objeto remendado
  5. 5
    pessoa indolente

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #77,105 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "emplastro"?
"emplastro" is spelled E-M-P-L-A-S-T-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ẽ.ˈplɐʃ.tɾu/.
What does "emplastro" mean?
As a noun, "emplastro" means: medicamento lutinoso que, amolecendo com o calor, adere à parte do corpo em que se aplica
How do you pronounce "emplastro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "emplastro" is /ẽ.ˈplɐʃ.tɾu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.