opróbrio
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8 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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opróbrio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: grande desonra pública; degradação social; ignomínia, vergonha, vexame Pronounced /ɔ.ˈpɾɔ.bɾju/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opróbrio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.ˈpɾɔ.bɾju/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for opróbrio is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.ˈpɾɔ.bɾju/. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for opróbrio 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 opróbrio, spelled O-P-R-Ó-B-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1grande desonra pública; degradação social; ignomínia, vergonha, vexame
- 2caráter daquilo que humilha, degrada; estado ou condição que revela alto grau de baixeza, torpeza; abjeção, degradação
- 3ação ou dito que desonra, avilta, revela falta de apreço ou consideração; afronta, desprezo
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