pichão
Letters
6 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
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pichão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a parede-mestra de uma casa que remata em ângulo para fazer o telhado a duas águas; o bico da parede-mestra Pronounced /pi.'t͡ʃoŋ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pichão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pi.'t͡ʃoŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for pichão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pi.'t͡ʃoŋ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pichão 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 pichão, spelled P-I-C-H-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1a parede-mestra de uma casa que remata em ângulo para fazer o telhado a duas águas; o bico da parede-mestra
- 2a superior das lajes interiores nas grandes chaminés que evitam a entrada da chuva, e que dá saída à água para o telhado
- 3no carro de vacas, espécie de estronca em Y para sustentar a cabeçalha horizontalmente
- 4no candil, extremidade onde vai a torcida
- 5proeminência, vulto na carne de um animal
- 6pombinho, cria de pombo, pombo ainda não adulto; o macho da pomba doméstica
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