fogo de palha
Letters
13 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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0
similar word pairs
fogo de palha is aPortuguesephrase. It means: fogo que se coloca em pequenas folhas e lascas de vegetais, secas, para que assim produzam chamas rapidamente, via de regra para acender pedaços maiores de madeira Pronounced /ˈfɔ.ɡu d͡ʒi ˈpa.ʎɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fogo de palha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈfɔ.ɡu d͡ʒi ˈpa.ʎɐ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for fogo de palha is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfɔ.ɡu d͡ʒi ˈpa.ʎɐ/. 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 fogo de palha 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 fogo de palha, spelled F-O-G-O- -D-E- -P-A-L-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1fogo que se coloca em pequenas folhas e lascas de vegetais, secas, para que assim produzam chamas rapidamente, via de regra para acender pedaços maiores de madeira
- 2algo que tem pouca duração, como o fogo colocado em palhas
- 3sentimento muito intenso, mas de pouca duração
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