incrustação

//ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]/ noun

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Language

Portuguese

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incrustação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de incrustar; forma nominal deste verbo Pronounced /ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃].

Key facts for incrustação
PropertyValue
Headwordincrustação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

incrustação 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 incrustação is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for incrustação 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 incrustação, spelled I-N-C-R-U-S-T-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ato ou efeito de incrustar; forma nominal deste verbo
  2. 2
    técnica de inserção de algo em uma base feita de outro material, para ornamentação
  3. 3
    o ornamento resultante dessa manufatura
  4. 4
    formação de uma crosta, tanto de material orgânico quanto inorgânico, sobre a superfície de um corpo
  5. 5
    formação de crostas de material distinto em uma rocha, ou em determinado mineral
  6. 6
    deposição de materiais, muitas vezes corrosivos (quando, por exemplo, tem-se a presença de íons de cálcio e magnésio), em tubulações onde circula água rica em calcário e sais
  7. 7
    tipo de prótese parcial que é inserida sobre a base remanescente de um dente que sofreu danos
  8. 8
    o mesmo que tauxia

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "incrustação"?
"incrustação" is spelled I-N-C-R-U-S-T-A-Ç-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃].
What does "incrustação" mean?
As a noun, "incrustação" means: ato ou efeito de incrustar; forma nominal deste verbo
How do you pronounce "incrustação"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "incrustação" is /ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.kɾus.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "incrustação" come from?
"incrustação" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.