estrepe
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7 characters
Language
Portuguese
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estrepe is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pequeno pedaço de madeira, ou de outro material, em forma de espinho ou pontiagudo Pronounced /isˈtɾɛpi/, /jsˈtɾɛpi/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estrepe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /isˈtɾɛpi/, /jsˈtɾɛpi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for estrepe is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /isˈtɾɛpi/, /jsˈtɾɛpi/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for estrepe 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 estrepe, spelled E-S-T-R-E-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pequeno pedaço de madeira, ou de outro material, em forma de espinho ou pontiagudo
- 2ponta em forma de espinho, ou o próprio espinho
- 3artefato pontiagudo cravado no solo, em fossos, valas etc. para dificultar o avanço inimigo
- 4qualquer estaca pontuda, de madeira ou de ferro, usada dessa maneira
- 5situação difícil, embaraçosa
- 6pessoa inconveniente, incômoda, desagradável
- 7pessoa feia
- 8porção de cacos de vidro grudados com cimento nos muros das casas, a fim de se evitarem ladrões
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