pedra, papel e tesoura

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for pedra, papel e tesoura is 22 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɛ.dɾɐ | paˈpɛw i teˈzo(w).ɾɐ/ [ˈpɛ.dɾɐ | paˈpɛʊ̯ i teˈzo(ʊ̯).ɾɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "brincadeira que consiste em dois participantes apresentarem uma das mãos ao mesmo tempo, de modo que cada um tem três escolhas: pedra (a mão fechada), papel (a mão aberta) e tesoura (formando um "V...".

No misspelling variants are generated for pedra, papel e tesoura 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 pedra, papel e tesoura, spelled P-E-D-R-A-,- -P-A-P-E-L- -E- -T-E-S-O-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.