esponsais
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9 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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esponsais is aPortuguesenoun. It means: contrato de casamento; noivado, esponsal Pronounced /iʃ.põ.ˈsajʃ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esponsais |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.põ.ˈsajʃ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for esponsais is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.põ.ˈsajʃ/. 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 esponsais 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 esponsais, spelled E-S-P-O-N-S-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1contrato de casamento; noivado, esponsal
- 2solenidade em que se firma esse contrato
- 3cerimônia que precede o casamento
- 4promessa recíproca de casamento, formalizada por escritura pública firmada pelos noivos ou por seus pais, em que se inscreviam pactos ou convenções a serem cumpridos em consequência do matrimônio
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