raposa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,096
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
raposa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: mamífero carnívoro canídeo, ou seja, da família Canidae e da ordem Carnivora, de cauda peluda e pequeno porte, grande predador de aves; as raposas podem ser dos gêneros Vulpes, Alopex, Otocyon ou U... Pronounced /Rɐ.ˈpo.zɐ/. It ranks #9,096 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with rosa and rasa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raposa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Rɐ.ˈpo.zɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for raposa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /Rɐ.ˈpo.zɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,096 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for raposa, with forms such as "arposa", "raopsa", and "rapoas". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rosa", "rasa", "rapa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 raposa, spelled R-A-P-O-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mamífero carnívoro canídeo, ou seja, da família Canidae e da ordem Carnivora, de cauda peluda e pequeno porte, grande predador de aves; as raposas podem ser dos gêneros Vulpes, Alopex, Otocyon ou Urocyon; o som emitido pela raposa se chama regougo; seu macho é o raposo
- 2pele de raposa¹, geralmente aplicada em (ou como) peça de vestuário
- 3"prémio" para quem reprova em exame
- 4pessoa esperta, manhosa, astuta, sagaz
- 5apelido que os legalistas aplicavam aos rebeldes da Sabinada
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arposa,raopsa,rapoas,rapossa,rapposa,rapsoa,rpaosa,rraposa
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Misspelling Variants of "raposa"
Frequency rank: #9,096 in Portuguese
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