enxada
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,913
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
enxada is aPortuguesenoun. It means: instrumento que consiste em uma lâmina de metal, com um orifício na parte oposta ao gume em que se encaixa um cabo em sentido perpendicular, usado para capinar, revolver ou cavar a terra, misturar ... Pronounced /ẽ.ˈʃa.dɐ/. Often confused with espada and escada.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enxada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ẽ.ˈʃa.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for enxada is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.ˈʃa.dɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #42,913 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.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for enxada, with forms such as "enaxda", "ennxada", and "enxaad". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "espada", "escada", "enxame", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 enxada, spelled E-N-X-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1instrumento que consiste em uma lâmina de metal, com um orifício na parte oposta ao gume em que se encaixa um cabo em sentido perpendicular, usado para capinar, revolver ou cavar a terra, misturar argamassas, concretos etc
- 2operário rural; trabalhador de enxada
- 3ocupação, trabalho do qual se extraem os meios de subsistência; ofício, profissão, ganha-pão
- 4peixe teleósteo (Chaetodipterus faber), perciforme, da família dos efipídeos, que ocorre no Atlântico ocidental, em pedras e recifes de corais, de até 90 cm de comprimento, corpo discóide prateado, com três a cinco faixas transversais negras, mais visíveis nos jovens; paru, paru-branco, tareira
- 5o mesmo que paru (Pomacanthus arcuatus e Pomacantus paru)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enaxda,ennxada,enxaad,enxadda,enxdaa,enxxada,exnada,nexada
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Misspelling Variants of "enxada"
Frequency rank: #42,913 in Portuguese
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