fincão

//fiŋ.'koŋ// noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fincão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: estronca, no carro das vacas, peça na que apoia a cabeçalha, para manter o carro horizontal; peça que faz o mesmo serviço na parte posterior do carro Pronounced /fiŋ.'koŋ/.

Key facts for fincão
PropertyValue
Headwordfincão
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/fiŋ.'koŋ/
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for fincão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fiŋ.'koŋ/. 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 misspelling variants are generated for fincão 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 fincão, spelled F-I-N-C-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    estronca, no carro das vacas, peça na que apoia a cabeçalha, para manter o carro horizontal; peça que faz o mesmo serviço na parte posterior do carro
  2. 2
    peça de madeira no carro das vacas que ajuda a ligar as treitoiras com a cheda
  3. 3
    poste de pedra ou cimento; pedra fincada maior nos muros a pedra seca; pedra fincada que serve de apoio a uma cancela
  4. 4
    poste vertical em uma sebe

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fincão"?
"fincão" is spelled F-I-N-C-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /fiŋ.'koŋ/.
What does "fincão" mean?
As a noun, "fincão" means: estronca, no carro das vacas, peça na que apoia a cabeçalha, para manter o carro horizontal; peça que faz o mesmo serviço na parte posterior do carro
How do you pronounce "fincão"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fincão" is /fiŋ.'koŋ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fincão" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.