hipotônico
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10 characters
Language
Portuguese
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hipotônico is anPortugueseadj. It means: diz-se da solução que tem menor concentração de soluto que outra e que, no processo osmótico celular, faz com que a água difunda-se para o seu interior, podendo no caso de células animais provocar ... Pronounced /i.poˈtõ.ni.ku/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hipotônico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /i.poˈtõ.ni.ku/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for hipotônico is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.poˈtõ.ni.ku/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hipotônico 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 hipotônico, spelled H-I-P-O-T-Ô-N-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1diz-se da solução que tem menor concentração de soluto que outra e que, no processo osmótico celular, faz com que a água difunda-se para o seu interior, podendo no caso de células animais provocar a ruptura (citólise) e, na vegetal, a água se acumula nos vacúolos mas a rigidez da parede celular impede tal ruptura
- 2que diz respeito ou que tem hipotonia
- 3que diz respeito ou que tem hipotonia
- 4que diz respeito ou que tem hipotonia
- 5que diz respeito ou que tem hipotonia
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