incrustar
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9 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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incrustar is aPortugueseverb. It means: inserir em uma peça a ser ornada de pedaços de outra que lhe seja contrastante, ou que forme desenhos ou enriqueça com pedras preciosas Pronounced /ĩ.kɾusˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.kɾusˈta(h)].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incrustar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ĩ.kɾusˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.kɾusˈta(h)] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for incrustar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.kɾusˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.kɾusˈta(h)]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for incrustar 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 incrustar, spelled I-N-C-R-U-S-T-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1inserir em uma peça a ser ornada de pedaços de outra que lhe seja contrastante, ou que forme desenhos ou enriqueça com pedras preciosas
- 2formar uma crosta ou camada de proteção em
- 3realizar a galvanização em um metal, dourando-o ou deixando-o prateado
- 4prender ou prender-se bem forte em uma superfície, nela ficando embutido ou encaixado
- 5ação de tudo que vem a se prender fortemente
- 6perder a sensibilidade e empatia; ficar insensível
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