seteira
The verdict
“seteira” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequena abertura nas muralhas, pela qual se arremessavam setas contra os inimigos ou sitiantes; abocadura, flecheira, frecheira, frecheiro, portilha
Corpus desk
Index PT-seteira · seteira · Portuguese
seteira · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seteira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “seteira” em português
Rare enough to double-check
seteira is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for seteira, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct Portuguese form is seteira, spelled S-E-T-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1pequena abertura nas muralhas, pela qual se arremessavam setas contra os inimigos ou sitiantes; abocadura, flecheira, frecheira, frecheiro, portilha
- 2fresta nas paredes de uma edificação para deixar passar a luz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how seteira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Obs.: confira balestreiro
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.