ferroada
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#97,714
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ferroada is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ação de picar (o inseto, aracnídeo, etc.) com ferrão ou com as mandíbulas, podendo ou não haver injeção de veneno Pronounced /fe.ʁoˈa.dɐ/ [fe.hoˈa.dɐ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferroada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fe.ʁoˈa.dɐ/ [fe.hoˈa.dɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ferroada is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fe.ʁoˈa.dɐ/ [fe.hoˈa.dɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #97,714 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 ferroada 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 ferroada, spelled F-E-R-R-O-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ação de picar (o inseto, aracnídeo, etc.) com ferrão ou com as mandíbulas, podendo ou não haver injeção de veneno
- 2a marca deixada pela ferroada
- 3a furada pela agulha de injeção
- 4dor aguda e repentina
- 5comentário feito para censurar de forma aguda e maliciosa
- 6pancada e marca da ponta de ferro do pião
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #97,714 in Portuguese
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