bacilo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,622
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bacilo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome comum ao gênero de bactérias Bacillus, tendo em comum a forma de bastonete, a produção interna de esporos (endósporos) e de enzimas que podem ser tóxicas e deletérias e que, quando submetidas ... Pronounced /baˈsi.lu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bacilo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /baˈsi.lu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bacilo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /baˈsi.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #66,622 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bacilo 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 bacilo, spelled B-A-C-I-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome comum ao gênero de bactérias Bacillus, tendo em comum a forma de bastonete, a produção interna de esporos (endósporos) e de enzimas que podem ser tóxicas e deletérias e que, quando submetidas ao contraste de Gram, reagem positivamente, algumas das quais são úteis como a B. thuringiensis ou a B. amyloliquefaciens usada na pesquisa de DNA entre outros fins
- 2diz-se de toda bactéria que tem forma de bastonete, pertencendo ou não ao gênero Bacillus
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Frequency rank: #66,622 in Portuguese
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