hipocampo
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,124
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
hipocampo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ente fantástico, presente nas mitologias fenícia, etrusca, picta, romana e grega (onde esse nome), descrito geralmente como tendo a parte anterior do corpo como um cavalo e a posterior de peixe, se... Pronounced /i.poˈkɐ̃.pu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hipocampo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /i.poˈkɐ̃.pu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for hipocampo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.poˈkɐ̃.pu/. Corpus data places it at rank #51,124 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hipocampo 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 hipocampo, spelled H-I-P-O-C-A-M-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ente fantástico, presente nas mitologias fenícia, etrusca, picta, romana e grega (onde esse nome), descrito geralmente como tendo a parte anterior do corpo como um cavalo e a posterior de peixe, sendo alado nalgumas alegorias, associado a deuses como Netuno/Poseidon
- 2peixe da família Hippocampus
- 3cada uma das estruturas gêmeas existentes no cérebro de humanos e outros mamíferos, ou única em outros vertebrados, responsável nos animais superiores para a conversão de memórias de curto prazo em de longo prazo, além de atuarem na memória espacial e senso de localização, integrado à amígdala, e que faz parte do sistema límbico
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Frequency rank: #51,124 in Portuguese
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