salamanta

//sa.la.ˈmã.ta// noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

salamanta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: Cobra da espécie Epicrates cenchria, conhecida por ter escamas que refletem as cores do arco-íris. Pronounced /sa.la.ˈmã.ta/.

Key facts for salamanta
PropertyValue
Headwordsalamanta
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/sa.la.ˈmã.ta/
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for salamanta is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sa.la.ˈmã.ta/. 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: "Cobra da espécie Epicrates cenchria, conhecida por ter escamas que refletem as cores do arco-íris.".

No misspelling variants are generated for salamanta 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 salamanta, spelled S-A-L-A-M-A-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Cobra da espécie Epicrates cenchria, conhecida por ter escamas que refletem as cores do arco-íris.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "salamanta"?
"salamanta" is spelled S-A-L-A-M-A-N-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is /sa.la.ˈmã.ta/.
What does "salamanta" mean?
As a noun, "salamanta" means: Cobra da espécie Epicrates cenchria, conhecida por ter escamas que refletem as cores do arco-íris.
How do you pronounce "salamanta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "salamanta" is /sa.la.ˈmã.ta/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "salamanta" come from?
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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.