dimorfismo

//d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

Portuguese

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Misspellings

0

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dimorfismo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aquilo que assume duas formas diferentes Pronounced /d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu].

Key facts for dimorfismo
PropertyValue
Headworddimorfismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for dimorfismo is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for dimorfismo 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 dimorfismo, spelled D-I-M-O-R-F-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    aquilo que assume duas formas diferentes
  2. 2
    ocorrência, dentro de um mesmo grupo de indivíduos da mesma espécie, de dois grupos geneticamente distintos em um mesmo caractere
  3. 3
    ocorrência de indivíduos com duas tipologias distintas numa mesma espécie
  4. 4
    ocorrência de indivíduos com duas tipologias distintas numa mesma espécie
  5. 5
    na mineralogia, condição de algumas substâncias de se cristalizarem de duas formas distintas e irredutíveis

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dimorfismo"?
"dimorfismo" is spelled D-I-M-O-R-F-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is /d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu].
What does "dimorfismo" mean?
As a noun, "dimorfismo" means: aquilo que assume duas formas diferentes
How do you pronounce "dimorfismo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dimorfismo" is /d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.