escândio

//iʃ.ˈkɐ̃.dju// noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

escândio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elemento químico de símbolo Sc, possui o número atômico 21 e massa atômica relativa 44,955; é um metal de transição, do grupo das terras raras, mole, muito leve e resistente a ácidos; o óxido de es... Pronounced /iʃ.ˈkɐ̃.dju/.

Key facts for escândio
PropertyValue
Headwordescândio
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/iʃ.ˈkɐ̃.dju/
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

escândio 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 escândio is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.ˈkɐ̃.dju/. 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 Sc, possui o número atômico 21 e massa atômica relativa 44,955; é um metal de transição, do grupo das terras raras, mole, muito leve e resistente a ácidos; o óxido de es...".

No misspelling variants are generated for escândio 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 escândio, spelled E-S-C-Â-N-D-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    elemento químico de símbolo Sc, possui o número atômico 21 e massa atômica relativa 44,955; é um metal de transição, do grupo das terras raras, mole, muito leve e resistente a ácidos; o óxido de escândio é utilizado na fabricação de lâmpadas de vapor de mercúrio

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "escândio"?
"escândio" is spelled E-S-C-Â-N-D-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is /iʃ.ˈkɐ̃.dju/.
What does "escândio" mean?
As a noun, "escândio" means: elemento químico de símbolo Sc, possui o número atômico 21 e massa atômica relativa 44,955; é um metal de transição, do grupo das terras raras, mole, muito leve e resistente a ácidos; o óxido de es...
How do you pronounce "escândio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "escândio" is /iʃ.ˈkɐ̃.dju/. 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.