luge
Letters
4 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
luge is aPortuguesenoun. It means: esporte olímpico de inverno que consiste em descer uma pista de gelo em cima de um trenó. As competições podem ser em duplas ou individual e ganha quem completar o circuito no menos tempo Pronounced /ˈlu.ʒi/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | luge |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlu.ʒi/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for luge is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlu.ʒi/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for luge 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 luge, spelled L-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1esporte olímpico de inverno que consiste em descer uma pista de gelo em cima de um trenó. As competições podem ser em duplas ou individual e ganha quem completar o circuito no menos tempo
- 2o trenó usado nesse esporte
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