metátese
Letters
8 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
metátese is aPortuguesenoun. It means: troca de lugar de fonemas ou sílabas dentro de uma palavra, atraídos ou repelidos por outros fonemas (por exemplo, atanazar > atazanar; víbora > bívora) Pronounced /meˈta.te.zi/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | metátese |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /meˈta.te.zi/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for metátese is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /meˈta.te.zi/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for metátese 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 metátese, spelled M-E-T-Á-T-E-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1troca de lugar de fonemas ou sílabas dentro de uma palavra, atraídos ou repelidos por outros fonemas (por exemplo, atanazar > atazanar; víbora > bívora)
- 2mudança de posição dos termos em um enunciado
- 3operação que consiste em transferir o foco de uma doença para outro local onde seja inofensivo ou menos danoso
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