peixe-boi

noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

peixe-boi is aPortuguesenoun. It means: mamífero aquático da família triquequídeo, pode ser encontrado tanto na variação de água doce quanto de água salgada

Key facts for peixe-boi
PropertyValue
Headwordpeixe-boi
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

peixe-boi is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for peixe-boi is 9 letters long, classified as anoun. 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: "mamífero aquático da família triquequídeo, pode ser encontrado tanto na variação de água doce quanto de água salgada".

No misspelling variants are generated for peixe-boi 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 peixe-boi, spelled P-E-I-X-E---B-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    mamífero aquático da família triquequídeo, pode ser encontrado tanto na variação de água doce quanto de água salgada

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "peixe-boi"?
"peixe-boi" is spelled P-E-I-X-E---B-O-I.
What does "peixe-boi" mean?
As a noun, "peixe-boi" means: mamífero aquático da família triquequídeo, pode ser encontrado tanto na variação de água doce quanto de água salgada
What language does "peixe-boi" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.