esparto
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7 characters
Language
Portuguese
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esparto is aPortuguesenoun. It means: denominação comum a várias gramíneas da Espanha e Argélia (Stipa tenacissima e Lygeum spartum) das quais se fazem cordas, sapatos, etc. Pronounced /iʃ.ˈpaɾ.tu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esparto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.ˈpaɾ.tu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for esparto is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.ˈpaɾ.tu/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for esparto 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 esparto, spelled E-S-P-A-R-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1denominação comum a várias gramíneas da Espanha e Argélia (Stipa tenacissima e Lygeum spartum) das quais se fazem cordas, sapatos, etc.
- 2a fibra dessas gramíneas
- 3arbusto da família das leguminosas, subfamília papilionoídea (Spartium junceum), de inflorescências grandes e densas e flores amarelas, natural do Mediterrâneo e cultivado para ornamentação o obtenção de suas fibras
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