pena de talião

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for pena de talião is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpẽ.nɐ d͡ʒi ta.liˈɐ̃w̃/ [ˈpẽ.nɐ d͡ʒi ta.lɪˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃]; AFI: /ˈpẽ.nɐ d͡ʒi taˈljɐ̃w̃/ [ˈpẽ.nɐ d͡ʒi taˈljɐ̃ʊ̯̃] (coloquial). It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for pena de talião 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 pena de talião, spelled P-E-N-A- -D-E- -T-A-L-I-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.