joelheira
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#94,913
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
joelheira is aPortuguesenoun. It means: parte da armadura correspondente ao joelho Pronounced /ʒwɨ.ˈʎɐj.ɾɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joelheira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒwɨ.ˈʎɐj.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for joelheira is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʒwɨ.ˈʎɐj.ɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #94,913 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for joelheira 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 joelheira, spelled J-O-E-L-H-E-I-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1parte da armadura correspondente ao joelho
- 2parte da bota que cobre o joelho
- 3peça de couro com que se resguardam os joelhos das bestas
- 4peça de madeira em que se assentam os joelhos para se fazerem certos serviços, como esfregar casas, etc
- 5peça do malha de lã com que se revestem os joelhos, por baixo das calças e das ceroulas, para os resguardar do frio
- 6deformidade nas calças no lugar correspondente aos joelhos
- 7vestígio de ferimentos nos joelhos das bestas
Frequency rank: #94,913 in Portuguese
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