morraço
Letters
7 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
morraço is aPortuguesenoun. It means: golpe, ferimento, pancada ou murro recebido nos lábios e nariz, nos focinhos Pronounced /mo.'ra.sʊ/ ou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | morraço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mo.'ra.sʊ/ ou |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for morraço is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mo.'ra.sʊ/ ou. 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 misspelling variants are generated for morraço 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 morraço, spelled M-O-R-R-A-Ç-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1golpe, ferimento, pancada ou murro recebido nos lábios e nariz, nos focinhos
- 2no jogo do pião, pancada de ferrão que recebe o pião que paga
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