portão de largada

phrase

The verdict

“portão de largada” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: dispositivo que consiste de espécie de baias com portas à sua frente que têm mecanismo de abertura síncrona em que montaria é posicionada antes do acionamento e início de cavalgamento

Key facts for portão de largada
PropertyValue
Headwordportão de largada
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “portão de largada” sits in Portuguese frequency

portão de largada falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for portão de largada is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "dispositivo que consiste de espécie de baias com portas à sua frente que têm mecanismo de abertura síncrona em que montaria é posicionada antes do acionamento e início de cavalgamento".

No misspelling variants are generated for portão de largada 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 portão de largada, spelled P-O-R-T-Ã-O- -D-E- -L-A-R-G-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    dispositivo que consiste de espécie de baias com portas à sua frente que têm mecanismo de abertura síncrona em que montaria é posicionada antes do acionamento e início de cavalgamento

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "portão de largada"?
"portão de largada" is spelled P-O-R-T-Ã-O- -D-E- -L-A-R-G-A-D-A.
What does "portão de largada" mean?
As a phrase, "portão de largada" means: dispositivo que consiste de espécie de baias com portas à sua frente que têm mecanismo de abertura síncrona em que montaria é posicionada antes do acionamento e início de cavalgamento
What language does "portão de largada" come from?
"portão de largada" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “portão de largada”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-O-R-T-Ã-O- -D-E- -L-A-R-G-A-D-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.