pontão
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#58,133
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
pontão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: cada um dos dois paus fortes que formam uma espécie de ponte simples para passar um pequeno ribeiro Pronounced /pon.'toŋ/ ou /pʊn.'toŋ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pontão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pon.'toŋ/ ou /pʊn.'toŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pontão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pon.'toŋ/ ou /pʊn.'toŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #58,133 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pontão 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 pontão, spelled P-O-N-T-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1cada um dos dois paus fortes que formam uma espécie de ponte simples para passar um pequeno ribeiro
- 2pequena ponte
- 3na armação do teto, telhado ou piso de uma casa, vigota, madeiro que vai de trave a trave
- 4viga que descansa longitudinalmente sobre o muro ou parede e que recebe e reparte o peso das traves
- 5sarrafão, barrote
- 6nas lareiras tradicionais, trave forte da que pendura a gramalheira
- 7cada um dos dois postes verticais que formam o marco de uma cancela
- 8pau grosso que serve de esteio, poste para apoio e sustento
- 9barco fluvial de fundo plano
- 10navio militar sem propulsão, em geral fundeado, a servir de depósito, paiol, arrecadação, etc.
Frequency rank: #58,133 in Portuguese
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