cúrio
The verdict
“cúrio” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: elemento químico de símbolo Cm, possui o número atômico 96 e massa atômica relativa 247 u; é um metal radioativo de transição interna (actinídeo), de cor prateada, encontrado sólido na temperatura ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cúrio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈku.ɾju/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cúrio” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cúrio is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈku.ɾju/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "elemento químico de símbolo Cm, possui o número atômico 96 e massa atômica relativa 247 u; é um metal radioativo de transição interna (actinídeo), de cor prateada, encontrado sólido na temperatura ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cúrio 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 cúrio, spelled C-Ú-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo Cm, possui o número atômico 96 e massa atômica relativa 247 u; é um metal radioativo de transição interna (actinídeo), de cor prateada, encontrado sólido na temperatura ambiente; é um elemento transurânico sintético, produzido pelo bombardeamento do plutônio por íons de hélio de alta energia; possui aplicações comerciais muito restritas, é usado principalmente como fonte de energia para marca-passos cardíacos
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Using “cúrio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-Ú-R-I-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈku.ɾju/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Portuguese words
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