olhal

//oˈʎaw/ [oˈʎaʊ̯]/ noun

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Language

Portuguese

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olhal is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o espaço vazio entre arcadas ou pilares de pontes, viadutos, aquedutos, etc. Pronounced /oˈʎaw/ [oˈʎaʊ̯].

Key facts for olhal
PropertyValue
Headwordolhal
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/oˈʎaw/ [oˈʎaʊ̯]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for olhal is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /oˈʎaw/ [oˈʎaʊ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for olhal 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 olhal, spelled O-L-H-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    o espaço vazio entre arcadas ou pilares de pontes, viadutos, aquedutos, etc.
  2. 2
    parafuso com uma cabeça em forma de anel (ou uma abertura na cabeça) no qual algo pode ser preso ou amarrado
  3. 3
    num fecho em colchete, a parte fêmea na qual se prende o gancho
  4. 4
    abertura na qual se encaixa uma espoleta para ignição da carga, em armas onde esta não vem na cápsula da bala
  5. 5
    na anatomia de equinos, afundamento na parte superior dos olhos que aumenta com a idade, situado na parte posterior do osso frontal (à altura da sutura temporofrontal) onde está o espaço em que se encaixa a mandíbula com o crânio, e que é preenchido com músculos ligados ao processo coronoide mandibular (geralmente usado no plural)
  6. 6
    anel localizado em verga do navio, para ali passar polés, cordas e cabos
  7. 7
    peça, em plástico ou borracha, onde o olho se encosta para visualização em instrumentos óticos como lunetas, binóculos, microscópios, etc.
  8. 8
    orifício ou anel onde se encaixa uma peça macho (espigão ou cavilha, por exemplo), como o de engates de veículos
  9. 9
    visor em forma de olho, como o que existe em portas
  10. 10
    emissor luminoso que lembra um olho

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "olhal"?
"olhal" is spelled O-L-H-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is /oˈʎaw/ [oˈʎaʊ̯].
What does "olhal" mean?
As a noun, "olhal" means: o espaço vazio entre arcadas ou pilares de pontes, viadutos, aquedutos, etc.
How do you pronounce "olhal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "olhal" is /oˈʎaw/ [oˈʎaʊ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "olhal" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.