autoclismo

//aw.tɔ.ˈkliʒ.mu// noun

The verdict

“autoclismo” 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
10
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: reservatório colocado nas latrinas que, depois de se acionar um mecanismo de descarga, sai água para as lavar

Key facts for autoclismo
PropertyValue
Headwordautoclismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/aw.tɔ.ˈkliʒ.mu/
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “autoclismo” sits in Portuguese frequency

autoclismo falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for autoclismo is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aw.tɔ.ˈkliʒ.mu/. 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: "reservatório colocado nas latrinas que, depois de se acionar um mecanismo de descarga, sai água para as lavar".

No misspelling variants are generated for autoclismo 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 autoclismo, spelled A-U-T-O-C-L-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    reservatório colocado nas latrinas que, depois de se acionar um mecanismo de descarga, sai água para as lavar

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autoclismo"?
"autoclismo" is spelled A-U-T-O-C-L-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is /aw.tɔ.ˈkliʒ.mu/.
What does "autoclismo" mean?
As a noun, "autoclismo" means: reservatório colocado nas latrinas que, depois de se acionar um mecanismo de descarga, sai água para as lavar
How do you pronounce "autoclismo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autoclismo" is /aw.tɔ.ˈkliʒ.mu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autoclismo" come from?
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Using “autoclismo”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-U-T-O-C-L-I-S-M-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /aw.tɔ.ˈkliʒ.mu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.