porta-voz

//ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈvɔ(j)s/ [ˌpɔh.tɐˈvɔ(ɪ̯)s]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

porta-voz is aPortuguesenoun. It means: espécie de instrumento, parecido com uma trombeta, usado para ampliar a voz de quem dele se serve; amplificador mecânico da voz Pronounced /ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈvɔ(j)s/ [ˌpɔh.tɐˈvɔ(ɪ̯)s].

Key facts for porta-voz
PropertyValue
Headwordporta-voz
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈvɔ(j)s/ [ˌpɔh.tɐˈvɔ(ɪ̯)s]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

porta-voz is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for porta-voz is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈvɔ(j)s/ [ˌpɔh.tɐˈvɔ(ɪ̯)s]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for porta-voz 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 porta-voz, spelled P-O-R-T-A---V-O-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    espécie de instrumento, parecido com uma trombeta, usado para ampliar a voz de quem dele se serve; amplificador mecânico da voz
  2. 2
    pessoa que fala em lugar ou em nome de outra

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "porta-voz"?
"porta-voz" is spelled P-O-R-T-A---V-O-Z. The IPA pronunciation is /ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈvɔ(j)s/ [ˌpɔh.tɐˈvɔ(ɪ̯)s].
What does "porta-voz" mean?
As a noun, "porta-voz" means: espécie de instrumento, parecido com uma trombeta, usado para ampliar a voz de quem dele se serve; amplificador mecânico da voz
How do you pronounce "porta-voz"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "porta-voz" is /ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈvɔ(j)s/ [ˌpɔh.tɐˈvɔ(ɪ̯)s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "porta-voz" come from?
"porta-voz" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.