mata-borrão
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11 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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mata-borrão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: papel especial próprio para a absorção do excesso de tinta em texto manuscrito, feito geralmente de algodão, bastante comum na época da escrita à pena Pronounced /ˌma.tɐ.boˈʁɐ̃w̃/ [ˌma.tɐ.boˈhɐ̃ʊ̯̃].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mata-borrão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌma.tɐ.boˈʁɐ̃w̃/ [ˌma.tɐ.boˈhɐ̃ʊ̯̃] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for mata-borrão is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌma.tɐ.boˈʁɐ̃w̃/ [ˌma.tɐ.boˈhɐ̃ʊ̯̃]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mata-borrão 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 mata-borrão, spelled M-A-T-A---B-O-R-R-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1papel especial próprio para a absorção do excesso de tinta em texto manuscrito, feito geralmente de algodão, bastante comum na época da escrita à pena
- 2o próprio dispositivo ou berço no qual esse papel é fixado para uso sobretudo em escritórios
- 3esse papel, usado em testes biológicos ou químicos, na distribuição do ácido lisérgico, na arte, etc.
- 4bêbado
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