pau-brasil
Letters
10 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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pau-brasil is aPortuguesenoun. It means: árvore leguminosa (Caesalpinia echinata Lam.) de madeira dura e vermelha, de até 30 m de altura, outrora largamente distribuída pelo litoral brasileiro e hoje ameaçada de extinção Pronounced /pawbɾaˈziw/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pau-brasil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pawbɾaˈziw/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for pau-brasil is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pawbɾaˈziw/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pau-brasil 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 pau-brasil, spelled P-A-U---B-R-A-S-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1árvore leguminosa (Caesalpinia echinata Lam.) de madeira dura e vermelha, de até 30 m de altura, outrora largamente distribuída pelo litoral brasileiro e hoje ameaçada de extinção
- 2a madeira dessa árvore
- 3nome comum a diversas árvores de madeira vermelha; brasil
- 4o mesmo que sibipiruna (Caesalpinia peltophoroides)
- 5o mesmo que pau-alazão (Eugenia multicostata)
- 6o mesmo que tarumaí (Rhamnidium elaeocarpum)
- 7o mesmo que pau-preto (Dalbergia latifolia)
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