ouropel
Letters
7 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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ouropel is aPortuguesenoun. It means: folha delgada de latão ou outro metal imitando ouro Pronounced /o(w).ɾoˈpɛw/ [o(ʊ̯).ɾoˈpɛʊ̯].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouropel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /o(w).ɾoˈpɛw/ [o(ʊ̯).ɾoˈpɛʊ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for ouropel is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /o(w).ɾoˈpɛw/ [o(ʊ̯).ɾoˈpɛʊ̯]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for ouropel 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 ouropel, spelled O-U-R-O-P-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1folha delgada de latão ou outro metal imitando ouro
- 2por extensão, aquilo que tem aparência enganosa de luxo; falso brilho; ornamento barato
- 3discurso que, ostentando um estilo cheio de pompa, esconde contudo ideias falsas ou falhas
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