trigo-negro
Letters
11 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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trigo-negro is aPortuguesephrase. It means: planta escrofulariácea que parasita os trigais Pronounced /tɾiˌɡuˈne.ɡɾu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trigo-negro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /tɾiˌɡuˈne.ɡɾu/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for trigo-negro is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɾiˌɡuˈne.ɡɾu/. 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 trigo-negro 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 trigo-negro, spelled T-R-I-G-O---N-E-G-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1planta escrofulariácea que parasita os trigais
- 2planta herbácea (Fagopyrum esculentum) asiática, com flores esbranquiçadas usadas como corante e grãos usados no feitio de farinhas para alimentação humana e animal; no primeiro caso tem uso em pratos das cozinhas bretã, japonesa, judaica, polaca, russa e ucraniana; apesar do nome vulgar, não tem parentesco com o trigo
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