acéfalo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,080
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
acéfalo is anPortugueseadj. It means: que não possui cabeça Pronounced /ɐ.ˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acéfalo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ɐ.ˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for acéfalo is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.ˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #80,080 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for acéfalo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 acéfalo, spelled A-C-É-F-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que não possui cabeça
- 2que não possui estrutura análoga à cabeça (diz-se, por exemplo, de animais em sua fase larval)
- 3que não possui liderança ou cuja liderança é insuficiente
- 4desprovido de inteligência
- 5diz-se do primeiro compasso que se inicia com pausa, porém com todos os tempos explícitos Não confundir com anacruse.
- 6cuja primeira sílaba é ausente, ou que inicia com sílaba breve
- 7bivalve
- 8diz-se daquele que, no Concílio de Éfeso, não prestou apoio a São Cirilo nem a São João de Antioquia
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #80,080 in Portuguese
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