luge

//ˈlu.ʒi// noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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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/.

Key facts for luge
PropertyValue
Headwordluge
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈlu.ʒi/
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

luge is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    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
  2. 2
    o trenó usado nesse esporte

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "luge"?
"luge" is spelled L-U-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈlu.ʒi/.
What does "luge" mean?
As a noun, "luge" 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
How do you pronounce "luge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "luge" is /ˈlu.ʒi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "luge" come from?
"luge" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.