códice
The verdict
“códice” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #62,079 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,079
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: manuscrito em pergaminho cujas folhas se unem como num livro
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | códice |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɔ.di.sɨ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “códice” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for códice is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɔ.di.sɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #62,079 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for códice 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 códice, spelled C-Ó-D-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1manuscrito em pergaminho cujas folhas se unem como num livro
- 2compilação metódica de documentos históricos, leis etc
- 3manuscrito ou exemplar antigo de obra de autor clássico
- 4entre os antigos romanos, tábula (placa com cera, na qual se escrevia), ou conjunto de tábulas unidas de modo a poderem ser dobradas, formando conjunto similar a códice¹ ou livro
Synonyms
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Frequency rank: #62,079 in Portuguese
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Using “códice”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-Ó-D-I-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkɔ.di.sɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: