esporão
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,301
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
esporão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: cada uma das unhas que o galo tem nos tarsos, com as quais luta Pronounced /es.po.'ɾoŋ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esporão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /es.po.'ɾoŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for esporão is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /es.po.'ɾoŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #57,301 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for esporão 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 esporão, spelled E-S-P-O-R-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1cada uma das unhas que o galo tem nos tarsos, com as quais luta
- 2doença, frieira no calcanhar
- 3nos carapaus, escama córnea que no seu conjunto desenham uma fileira lateral
- 4apoio lateral, botaréu
- 5esporão, quebra-mar; a ponta mais saliente do quebra-mar
- 6muro que entra no curso de um rio, para conter as suas águas ou desviá-las
Frequency rank: #57,301 in Portuguese
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