anquilossauro
The verdict
“anquilossauro” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: gênero e espécie única deste (A. magniventris), do final do período Cretáceo (entre 68 a 66 milhões de anos atrás) na América do Norte, herbívoro quadrúpede, corpo largo e robusto, crânio largo e b...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anquilossauro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ̃ˌki.loˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ̃ˌki.loˈsaʊ̯.ɾu] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “anquilossauro” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for anquilossauro is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ̃ˌki.loˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ̃ˌki.loˈsaʊ̯.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 única deste (A. magniventris), do final do período Cretáceo (entre 68 a 66 milhões de anos atrás) na América do Norte, herbívoro quadrúpede, corpo largo e robusto, crânio largo e b...".
No misspelling variants are generated for anquilossauro 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 anquilossauro, spelled A-N-Q-U-I-L-O-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
- 1gênero e espécie única deste (A. magniventris), do final do período Cretáceo (entre 68 a 66 milhões de anos atrás) na América do Norte, herbívoro quadrúpede, corpo largo e robusto, crânio largo e baixo, com dois chifres apontando para trás na parte posterior da cabeça e dois chifres abaixo destes, apontando para trás e para baixo, com narinas voltadas para os lados, em vez de para a frente como outros anquilossaurídeos descobertos em várias partes do planeta, parte frontal das mandíbulas coberta por um bico, com fileiras de pequenos dentes em forma de folha mais atrás, corpo coberto por placas ósseas (osteodermas) e uma grande clava na ponta da cauda
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Using “anquilossauro”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-Q-U-I-L-O-S-S-A-U-R-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɐ̃ˌki.loˈsaw.ɾu/ [ɐ̃ˌki.loˈsaʊ̯.ɾu] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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