argônio
The verdict
“argônio” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #71,496 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #71,496
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: elemento químico da classe dos gases nobres, possui o número atômico 18, massa atômica relativa de 39,948 e símbolo Ar; incolor e inerte, é encontrado em temperatura ambiente no estado gasoso, repr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argônio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aɦˈɡõ.nɪ.u/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “argônio” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for argônio is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aɦˈɡõ.nɪ.u/. Corpus data places it at rank #71,496 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "elemento químico da classe dos gases nobres, possui o número atômico 18, massa atômica relativa de 39,948 e símbolo Ar; incolor e inerte, é encontrado em temperatura ambiente no estado gasoso, repr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for argônio 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 argônio, spelled A-R-G-Ô-N-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1elemento químico da classe dos gases nobres, possui o número atômico 18, massa atômica relativa de 39,948 e símbolo Ar; incolor e inerte, é encontrado em temperatura ambiente no estado gasoso, representando 0,93% do volume da atmosfera terrestre; é utilizado em processos que exigem atmosfera inerte, como o interior das lâmpadas elétricas
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Frequency rank: #71,496 in Portuguese
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Using “argônio”
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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-R-G-Ô-N-I-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aɦˈɡõ.nɪ.u/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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