elipse
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,515
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
elipse is aPortuguesenoun. It means: figura geométrica formada num plano que corta um cone de revolução de maneira oblíqua à geratriz deste cone Pronounced /i.ˈli.psɨ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elipse |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /i.ˈli.psɨ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for elipse is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.ˈli.psɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #55,515 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for elipse 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 elipse, spelled E-L-I-P-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1figura geométrica formada num plano que corta um cone de revolução de maneira oblíqua à geratriz deste cone
- 2omissão de uma ou mais palavras, facilmente subentendíveis, numa oração, que se distingue da zeugma por aquela omitir termos não ditos, e esta omitir termos já expressos (por exemplo, na frase Fomos muito bem-sucedidos, em que se omite o pronome nós)
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Frequency rank: #55,515 in Portuguese
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