telegrafista
Letters
12 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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0
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telegrafista is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pessoa que, fazendo uso do código morse, transmite mensagens através do telégrafo ou de outro meio, como o semáforo Pronounced /ˌtɛˈlɛ.ɡɾa.fis.tɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telegrafista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌtɛˈlɛ.ɡɾa.fis.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for telegrafista is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌtɛˈlɛ.ɡɾa.fis.tɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for telegrafista 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 telegrafista, spelled T-E-L-E-G-R-A-F-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pessoa que, fazendo uso do código morse, transmite mensagens através do telégrafo ou de outro meio, como o semáforo
- 2funcionário dos correios encarregado de emitir ou receber telegramas
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