ponto morto
Letters
11 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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0
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ponto morto is aPortuguesephrase. It means: posição neutra das marchas de um automóvel e outros veículos com câmbio manual, onde a potência gerada pelo motor não é transmitida às engrenagens de movimento Pronounced /ˈpõ.tu ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈpõ.tu ˈmoh.tu].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ponto morto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈpõ.tu ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈpõ.tu ˈmoh.tu] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for ponto morto is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpõ.tu ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈpõ.tu ˈmoh.tu]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ponto morto 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 ponto morto, spelled P-O-N-T-O- -M-O-R-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1posição neutra das marchas de um automóvel e outros veículos com câmbio manual, onde a potência gerada pelo motor não é transmitida às engrenagens de movimento
- 2ponto no qual o êmbolo de um motor a vapor ou a explosão inverte seu movimento
- 3ponto ou posição geográfica não atingida pelas ondas radiofônicas
- 4situação em que nada acontece
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