fagocitose

//fa.ɡo.siˈtɔ.zi// noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

fagocitose is aPortuguesenoun. It means: processo pelo qual uma célula usa sua membrana plasmática para englobar partículas grandes (≥ 0,5 μm), dando origem a um compartimento interno chamado fagossoma Pronounced /fa.ɡo.siˈtɔ.zi/.

Key facts for fagocitose
PropertyValue
Headwordfagocitose
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/fa.ɡo.siˈtɔ.zi/
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for fagocitose is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fa.ɡo.siˈtɔ.zi/. 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: "processo pelo qual uma célula usa sua membrana plasmática para englobar partículas grandes (≥ 0,5 μm), dando origem a um compartimento interno chamado fagossoma".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fagocitose in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 fagocitose, spelled F-A-G-O-C-I-T-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    processo pelo qual uma célula usa sua membrana plasmática para englobar partículas grandes (≥ 0,5 μm), dando origem a um compartimento interno chamado fagossoma

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fagocitose"?
"fagocitose" is spelled F-A-G-O-C-I-T-O-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is /fa.ɡo.siˈtɔ.zi/.
What does "fagocitose" mean?
As a noun, "fagocitose" means: processo pelo qual uma célula usa sua membrana plasmática para englobar partículas grandes (≥ 0,5 μm), dando origem a um compartimento interno chamado fagossoma
How do you pronounce "fagocitose"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fagocitose" is /fa.ɡo.siˈtɔ.zi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fagocitose" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.