palmatória
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#74,195
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
palmatória is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pequena peça circular de madeira com cinco orifícios em cruz e provida de um cabo, usado como instrumento de castigo para bater na palma da mão do castigado Pronounced /paɫ.mɐ.ˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palmatória |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /paɫ.mɐ.ˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for palmatória is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /paɫ.mɐ.ˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #74,195 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for palmatória 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 palmatória, spelled P-A-L-M-A-T-Ó-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pequena peça circular de madeira com cinco orifícios em cruz e provida de um cabo, usado como instrumento de castigo para bater na palma da mão do castigado
- 2espécie de castiçal baixo, geralmente de metal, com prato e cabo ou asa; bugia
- 3braçadeira metálica que prende o turco ao costado da embarcação
- 4planta angiosperma aculeada (Opuntia monacantha) da família das cactáceas, de artículos carnosos, flores amarelo-esverdeadas, com a parte inferior vermelha, ou róseas, e bagas vermelhas, aculeadas e comestíveis, nativa da Argentina e Brasil (BA ao RS), e também cultivada por propriedades sedativas; arubeba, arumbeba, arumbeva, palmatória-de-espinho, palmilha-de-papa, raqueta, urumbeba, urumbeva
Frequency rank: #74,195 in Portuguese
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