piscada
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#63,083
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
piscada is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o ato de abrir e fechar os olhos como na reação fisiológica para sua lubrificação, reação automática de proteção, movimento intencional ou outros motivos Pronounced /pisˈka.dɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piscada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pisˈka.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for piscada is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pisˈka.dɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #63,083 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for piscada in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 piscada, spelled P-I-S-C-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o ato de abrir e fechar os olhos como na reação fisiológica para sua lubrificação, reação automática de proteção, movimento intencional ou outros motivos
- 2sinal, via de regra com apenas um olho, que sinaliza para outrem algum tipo de alerta, comando, intenção amorosa, etc.
- 3reação que indica certo nervosismo como, por exemplo, quando se está a mentir
- 4sinalização automotiva com os faróis a indicar algo à frente para o condutor que vem em sentido contrário e pelo qual tenha passado (situações como blitzes, acidente, obstáculo, etc.)
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #63,083 in Portuguese
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