carbono

//kɐɾ.ˈbɔ.nu// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,536

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

carbono is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elemento químico de símbolo C, possui o número atômico 6 e massa atômica relativa de 12,0107 u; é um não-metal, sólido na temperatura ambiente, com coloração preta (grafite) ou incolor (diamante); ... Pronounced /kɐɾ.ˈbɔ.nu/. It ranks #4,536 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with carona and caroço.

Key facts for carbono
PropertyValue
Headwordcarbono
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kɐɾ.ˈbɔ.nu/
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,536
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of carbono in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for carbono is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐɾ.ˈbɔ.nu/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,536 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "elemento químico de símbolo C, possui o número atômico 6 e massa atômica relativa de 12,0107 u; é um não-metal, sólido na temperatura ambiente, com coloração preta (grafite) ou incolor (diamante); ...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for carbono, with forms such as "acrbono", "cabrono", and "carbbono". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "carona", "caroço", "carbon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 carbono, spelled C-A-R-B-O-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    elemento químico de símbolo C, possui o número atômico 6 e massa atômica relativa de 12,0107 u; é um não-metal, sólido na temperatura ambiente, com coloração preta (grafite) ou incolor (diamante); é encontrado em três formas alotrópicas principais: o diamante, a grafite e o carbono amorfo; é utilizado na indústria como fonte de energia, na produção de ligas de aço e em barras de proteção em reatores nucleares; a grafite é utilizada para produção de lápis e, o diamante, em joias e ferramentas de corte

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acrbono,cabrono,carbbono,carbnoo,carbonno,carboon,carobno,carrbono,ccarbono,crabono

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carbono

Misspelling Variants of "carbono"

acrbono7cabrono7carbbono8carbnoo7carbonno8carboon7carobno7carrbono8
Misspelling Variants of "carbono"

Frequency rank: #4,536 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carbono"?
"carbono" is spelled C-A-R-B-O-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is /kɐɾ.ˈbɔ.nu/.
What does "carbono" mean?
As a noun, "carbono" means: elemento químico de símbolo C, possui o número atômico 6 e massa atômica relativa de 12,0107 u; é um não-metal, sólido na temperatura ambiente, com coloração preta (grafite) ou incolor (diamante); ...
What words are commonly confused with "carbono"?
"carbono" is commonly confused with "carona", "caroço", "carbon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "carbono"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "carbono" is /kɐɾ.ˈbɔ.nu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "carbono" come from?
"carbono" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.