preá
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#86,778
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
preá is aPortuguesenoun. It means: roedor caviídeo do gênero Cavia (como a cobaia), com até 25 cm de comprimento, pelagem cinzenta, corpo robusto, patas e orelhas curtas, incisivos brancos e cauda ausente, tem comportamento social, ... Pronounced /pɾeˈa/; /pɾiˈa/ [pɾɪˈa], AFI: /ˈpɾja/ (coloquial).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾeˈa/; /pɾiˈa/ [pɾɪˈa], AFI: /ˈpɾja/ (coloquial) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for preá is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾeˈa/; /pɾiˈa/ [pɾɪˈa], AFI: /ˈpɾja/ (coloquial). Corpus data places it at rank #86,778 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 misspelling variants are generated for preá 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 preá, spelled P-R-E-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1roedor caviídeo do gênero Cavia (como a cobaia), com até 25 cm de comprimento, pelagem cinzenta, corpo robusto, patas e orelhas curtas, incisivos brancos e cauda ausente, tem comportamento social, hábitos matutinos e noturnos, nativo da América do Sul (é encontrado na Argentina, Bolívia, Brasil, Colômbia, Equador, Paraguai, Peru, Uruguai e Venezuela)
- 2nome comum a espécies de roedores caviídeos do gênero Galea, comuns nas regiões Norte e Nordeste brasileiras em áreas de cerrado e caatinga, com hábitos noturnos, coloração cinza-amarelado no dorso e branca no ventre
- 3pessoa que toma parte de diversões sem contribuir com nada
- 4marinheiro novato, inexperiente, inábil
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #86,778 in Portuguese
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