expressão verbal
The verdict
“expressão verbal” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: tipo de sintagma que tem o verbo por determinante, seguido ou precedido por um complemento não-verbal, formando assim uma expressão própria onde os termos que a compõem têm individualmente um senti...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expressão verbal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /is.pɾeˈsɐ̃w̃ veʁˈbaw/ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “expressão verbal” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for expressão verbal is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /is.pɾeˈsɐ̃w̃ veʁˈbaw/. 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 expressão verbal 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 expressão verbal, spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S-Ã-O- -V-E-R-B-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tipo de sintagma que tem o verbo por determinante, seguido ou precedido por um complemento não-verbal, formando assim uma expressão própria onde os termos que a compõem têm individualmente um sentido diverso daquele do seu conjunto
- 2o mesmo que expressão idiomática
- 3o mesmo que expressão oral
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Using “expressão verbal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-X-P-R-E-S-S-Ã-O- -V-E-R-B-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /is.pɾeˈsɐ̃w̃ veʁˈbaw/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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