o barato sai caro

phrase

Letters

17 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

o barato sai caro is aPortuguesephrase. It means: expressão que indica que comprar produtos baratos e de fiabilidade duvidosa podem causar mais prejuízo a longo prazo do que um produto mais caro e durável

Key facts for o barato sai caro
PropertyValue
Headwordo barato sai caro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

o barato sai caro 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 o barato sai caro is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase. 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 o barato sai caro 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 o barato sai caro, spelled O- -B-A-R-A-T-O- -S-A-I- -C-A-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    expressão que indica que comprar produtos baratos e de fiabilidade duvidosa podem causar mais prejuízo a longo prazo do que um produto mais caro e durável
  2. 2
    diz-se quando complicações aparecem após ter-se tomado um caminho que parecia o de menor esforço

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "o barato sai caro"?
"o barato sai caro" is spelled O- -B-A-R-A-T-O- -S-A-I- -C-A-R-O.
What does "o barato sai caro" mean?
As a phrase, "o barato sai caro" means: expressão que indica que comprar produtos baratos e de fiabilidade duvidosa podem causar mais prejuízo a longo prazo do que um produto mais caro e durável
What language does "o barato sai caro" come from?
"o barato sai caro" 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.