antílope

//ãⁿ.ˈʧi.lo.pɪ// noun

The verdict

“antílope” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #61,953 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#61,953
frequency rank, Portuguese
8
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: designação comum a diversos mamíferos da família dos bovídeos, (Antilopinae) encontrados na África e na Ásia, de porte variável, menos robustos que os bois e os bisões, com um par de chifres perman...

Key facts for antílope
PropertyValue
Headwordantílope
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ãⁿ.ˈʧi.lo.pɪ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#61,953
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “antílope” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). antílope lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for antílope is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ãⁿ.ˈʧi.lo.pɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #61,953 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "designação comum a diversos mamíferos da família dos bovídeos, (Antilopinae) encontrados na África e na Ásia, de porte variável, menos robustos que os bois e os bisões, com um par de chifres perman...".

No misspelling variants are generated for antílope 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 antílope, spelled A-N-T-Í-L-O-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    designação comum a diversos mamíferos da família dos bovídeos, (Antilopinae) encontrados na África e na Ásia, de porte variável, menos robustos que os bois e os bisões, com um par de chifres permanentes, não-ramificados, de tamanhos e conformações diversos

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #61,953 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "antílope"?
"antílope" is spelled A-N-T-Í-L-O-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ãⁿ.ˈʧi.lo.pɪ/.
What does "antílope" mean?
As a noun, "antílope" means: designação comum a diversos mamíferos da família dos bovídeos, (Antilopinae) encontrados na África e na Ásia, de porte variável, menos robustos que os bois e os bisões, com um par de chifres perman...
How do you pronounce "antílope"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "antílope" is /ãⁿ.ˈʧi.lo.pɪ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "antílope" come from?
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Using “antílope”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-T-Í-L-O-P-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /ãⁿ.ˈʧi.lo.pɪ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

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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.