abelissauro

//ɐ.bɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ.βɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

abelissauro is aPortuguesenoun. It means: gênero e espécie-tipo de dinossauro terópode ceratussiano, bípede e carnívoro, que habitou a América do Sul do final do período jurássico ao início do cretáceo, com altura estimada de em média 7,4 ... Pronounced /ɐ.bɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ.βɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu].

Key facts for abelissauro
PropertyValue
Headwordabelissauro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ɐ.bɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ.βɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

abelissauro 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 abelissauro is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.bɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ.βɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu]. 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: "gênero e espécie-tipo de dinossauro terópode ceratussiano, bípede e carnívoro, que habitou a América do Sul do final do período jurássico ao início do cretáceo, com altura estimada de em média 7,4 ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for abelissauro 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 abelissauro, spelled A-B-E-L-I-S-S-A-U-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    gênero e espécie-tipo de dinossauro terópode ceratussiano, bípede e carnívoro, que habitou a América do Sul do final do período jurássico ao início do cretáceo, com altura estimada de em média 7,4 metros e 11 metros de comprimento (podendo atingir os 15 metros), o que provavelmente o tornava principal predador de seu ecossistema

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abelissauro"?
"abelissauro" is spelled A-B-E-L-I-S-S-A-U-R-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ɐ.bɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ.βɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu].
What does "abelissauro" mean?
As a noun, "abelissauro" means: gênero e espécie-tipo de dinossauro terópode ceratussiano, bípede e carnívoro, que habitou a América do Sul do final do período jurássico ao início do cretáceo, com altura estimada de em média 7,4 ...
How do you pronounce "abelissauro"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abelissauro" is /ɐ.bɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ.βɨ.liˈsaw.ɾu]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.