esponsais

//iʃ.põ.ˈsajʃ// noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

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esponsais is aPortuguesenoun. It means: contrato de casamento; noivado, esponsal Pronounced /iʃ.põ.ˈsajʃ/.

Key facts for esponsais
PropertyValue
Headwordesponsais
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/iʃ.põ.ˈsajʃ/
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

esponsais is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    contrato de casamento; noivado, esponsal
  2. 2
    solenidade em que se firma esse contrato
  3. 3
    cerimônia que precede o casamento
  4. 4
    promessa 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

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "esponsais"?
"esponsais" is spelled E-S-P-O-N-S-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is /iʃ.põ.ˈsajʃ/.
What does "esponsais" mean?
As a noun, "esponsais" means: contrato de casamento; noivado, esponsal
How do you pronounce "esponsais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "esponsais" is /iʃ.põ.ˈsajʃ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "esponsais" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.