acéfalo

//ɐ.ˈsɛ.fɐ.lu// adj

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/.

Key facts for acéfalo
PropertyValue
Headwordacéfalo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/ɐ.ˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/
Letters7
Frequency rank#80,080
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of acéfalo in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    que não possui cabeça
  2. 2
    que não possui estrutura análoga à cabeça (diz-se, por exemplo, de animais em sua fase larval)
  3. 3
    que não possui liderança ou cuja liderança é insuficiente
  4. 4
    desprovido de inteligência
  5. 5
    diz-se do primeiro compasso que se inicia com pausa, porém com todos os tempos explícitos Não confundir com anacruse.
  6. 6
    cuja primeira sílaba é ausente, ou que inicia com sílaba breve
  7. 7
    bivalve
  8. 8
    diz-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

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acéfalo"?
"acéfalo" is spelled A-C-É-F-A-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ɐ.ˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/.
What does "acéfalo" mean?
As an adj, "acéfalo" means: que não possui cabeça
How do you pronounce "acéfalo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acéfalo" is /ɐ.ˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acéfalo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.