bibliofilia

//ˌbi.bli.o.fiˈli.ɐ/ [ˌbi.blɪ.o.fiˈli.ɐ] AFI: /ˌbi.bljo.fiˈli.ɐ/ (pronúncia rápida)/ noun

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bibliofilia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: arte de colecionar livros, sobretudo os que tenham relevância histórica, cultural, temática, etc., considerando sua raridade, exclusividade e outros aspectos, como ser considerado valioso por ser ú... Pronounced /ˌbi.bli.o.fiˈli.ɐ/ [ˌbi.blɪ.o.fiˈli.ɐ] AFI: /ˌbi.bljo.fiˈli.ɐ/ (pronúncia rápida).

Key facts for bibliofilia
PropertyValue
Headwordbibliofilia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˌbi.bli.o.fiˈli.ɐ/ [ˌbi.blɪ.o.fiˈli.ɐ] AFI: /ˌbi.bljo.fiˈli.ɐ/ (pronúncia rápida)
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bibliofilia is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for bibliofilia is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌbi.bli.o.fiˈli.ɐ/ [ˌbi.blɪ.o.fiˈli.ɐ] AFI: /ˌbi.bljo.fiˈli.ɐ/ (pronúncia rápida). It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bibliofilia 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 bibliofilia, spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-F-I-L-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    arte de colecionar livros, sobretudo os que tenham relevância histórica, cultural, temática, etc., considerando sua raridade, exclusividade e outros aspectos, como ser considerado valioso por ser único (p. ex., conter um autógrafo, erro tipográfico, etc.); colecionismo de livros
  2. 2
    amor aos livros, especialmente aqueles considerados raros, bonitos ou relevantes; Gosto pelos livros raros e preciosos e pela ciência da sua investigação

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How do you spell "bibliofilia"?
"bibliofilia" is spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-F-I-L-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ˌbi.bli.o.fiˈli.ɐ/ [ˌbi.blɪ.o.fiˈli.ɐ] AFI: /ˌbi.bljo.fiˈli.ɐ/ (pronúncia rápida).
What does "bibliofilia" mean?
As a noun, "bibliofilia" means: arte de colecionar livros, sobretudo os que tenham relevância histórica, cultural, temática, etc., considerando sua raridade, exclusividade e outros aspectos, como ser considerado valioso por ser ú...
How do you pronounce "bibliofilia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bibliofilia" is /ˌbi.bli.o.fiˈli.ɐ/ [ˌbi.blɪ.o.fiˈli.ɐ] AFI: /ˌbi.bljo.fiˈli.ɐ/ (pronúncia rápida). Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bibliofilia" come from?
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