ciclone
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,311
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
ciclone is aPortuguesenoun. It means: centro de baixa pressão atmosférica onde o ar quente se eleva e favorece a formação de nuvens e a precipitação de chuvas Pronounced /si.ˈklɔ.nɨ/. It ranks #9,311 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with clone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciclone |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.ˈklɔ.nɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ciclone is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /si.ˈklɔ.nɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,311 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for ciclone, with forms such as "cciclone", "ccilone", and "cicclone". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "clone", 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 ciclone, spelled C-I-C-L-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1centro de baixa pressão atmosférica onde o ar quente se eleva e favorece a formação de nuvens e a precipitação de chuvas
- 2tempestades com ventos que circulam na forma de espiral (sentido horário no Hemisfério Sul e anti-horário no Hemisfério Norte), em alta velocidade, causando grandes destruições quando atinge regiões habitadas
- 3qualquer dispositivo de centrifugação para separar materiais sólidos, líquidos ou gasosos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cciclone,ccilone,cicclone,cicllone,ciclnoe,cicloen,ciclonne,cicolne,cilcone,icclone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ciclone"
Frequency rank: #9,311 in Portuguese
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