disprósio

//diʃ.ˈpɾɔ.zju// noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

disprósio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elemento químico de símbolo Dy, possui o número atômico 66 e massa atômica relativa 162,500 u; é um metal de transição interna (lantanídeo) de cor branco prateado; é obtido de minerais como a gadol... Pronounced /diʃ.ˈpɾɔ.zju/.

Key facts for disprósio
PropertyValue
Headworddisprósio
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/diʃ.ˈpɾɔ.zju/
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

disprósio 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 disprósio is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /diʃ.ˈpɾɔ.zju/. 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 Dy, possui o número atômico 66 e massa atômica relativa 162,500 u; é um metal de transição interna (lantanídeo) de cor branco prateado; é obtido de minerais como a gadol...".

No misspelling variants are generated for disprósio 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 disprósio, spelled D-I-S-P-R-Ó-S-I-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 Dy, possui o número atômico 66 e massa atômica relativa 162,500 u; é um metal de transição interna (lantanídeo) de cor branco prateado; é obtido de minerais como a gadolinita, euxenita e a fergusonita; suas aplicações são ainda restritas ao campo científico, porém, devido ao seu alto ponto de fusão e capacidade de absorção de elétrons, começa a ser utilizado em reatores nucleares, lasers e no fósforo dos cinescópios de televisão

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disprósio"?
"disprósio" is spelled D-I-S-P-R-Ó-S-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is /diʃ.ˈpɾɔ.zju/.
What does "disprósio" mean?
As a noun, "disprósio" means: elemento químico de símbolo Dy, possui o número atômico 66 e massa atômica relativa 162,500 u; é um metal de transição interna (lantanídeo) de cor branco prateado; é obtido de minerais como a gadol...
How do you pronounce "disprósio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "disprósio" is /diʃ.ˈpɾɔ.zju/. 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.