orfeão
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6 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
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orfeão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: agremiação, sociedade ou escola dedicada exclusivamente ao canto coral, originariamente apenas de vozes masculinas Pronounced /ɔɾ.ˈfjɐ̃w̃/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orfeão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔɾ.ˈfjɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for orfeão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔɾ.ˈfjɐ̃w̃/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for orfeão 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 orfeão, spelled O-R-F-E-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1agremiação, sociedade ou escola dedicada exclusivamente ao canto coral, originariamente apenas de vozes masculinas
- 2coro (conjunto de cantores) sem acompanhamento instrumental; coro a seco, coro a capella
- 3coro (conjunto de cantores) sem acompanhamento instrumental; coro a seco, coro a capella
- 4coro (conjunto de cantores) sem acompanhamento instrumental; coro a seco, coro a capella
- 5antigo instrumento de teclas, dotado de uma roda que fricciona e faz vibrar as cordas
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