frontispício

//fɾõ.tiʃ.ˈpi.sju// noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#87,345

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

frontispício is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a fachada de uma construção; frontaria; Pronounced /fɾõ.tiʃ.ˈpi.sju/.

Key facts for frontispício
PropertyValue
Headwordfrontispício
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/fɾõ.tiʃ.ˈpi.sju/
Letters12
Frequency rank#87,345
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of frontispício in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for frontispício is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɾõ.tiʃ.ˈpi.sju/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,345 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 frontispício 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 frontispício, spelled F-R-O-N-T-I-S-P-Í-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    a fachada de uma construção; frontaria;
  2. 2
    num livro, atualmente o mesmo que página de rosto; antigamente, a página que antecedia a página de rosto, geralmente ilustrada com uma gravura alusiva à obra

Frequency rank: #87,345 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "frontispício"?
"frontispício" is spelled F-R-O-N-T-I-S-P-Í-C-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is /fɾõ.tiʃ.ˈpi.sju/.
What does "frontispício" mean?
As a noun, "frontispício" means: a fachada de uma construção; frontaria;
How do you pronounce "frontispício"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "frontispício" is /fɾõ.tiʃ.ˈpi.sju/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "frontispício" come from?
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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.