glossolalia
Letters
11 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
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glossolalia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: suposto dom sobrenatural concedido aos apóstolos no dia de Pentecostes, pelo qual se tornaram capazes de falar várias línguas
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glossolalia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for glossolalia is 11 letters long, classified as anoun. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for glossolalia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 glossolalia, spelled G-L-O-S-S-O-L-A-L-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1suposto dom sobrenatural concedido aos apóstolos no dia de Pentecostes, pelo qual se tornaram capazes de falar várias línguas
- 2a prática comum no cristianismo pentecostal e neopentecostal que consiste em emitir sons silábicos após, supostamente, ter entrado em contato com o divino
- 3transtorno de linguagem presente em determinados doentes mentais que faz com que o paciente pense ter inventado uma linguagem nova
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