strč prst skrz krk
The verdict
“strč prst skrz krk” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: enfiar o dedo na garganta
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strč prst skrz krk |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈstr̩t͡ʃ ˈpr̩st ˈskr̩s ˈkr̩k/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “strč prst skrz krk” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for strč prst skrz krk is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈstr̩t͡ʃ ˈpr̩st ˈskr̩s ˈkr̩k/ ouvir^(fonte ?). 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: "enfiar o dedo na garganta".
No misspelling variants are generated for strč prst skrz krk 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 strč prst skrz krk, spelled S-T-R-Č- -P-R-S-T- -S-K-R-Z- -K-R-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1enfiar o dedo na garganta
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Using “strč prst skrz krk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-T-R-Č- -P-R-S-T- -S-K-R-Z- -K-R-K — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈstr̩t͡ʃ ˈpr̩st ˈskr̩s ˈkr̩k/ ouvir^(fonte ?) (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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