nasalização

//na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]/ noun

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nasalização is aPortuguesenoun. It means: processo da fonologia onde uma vogal pronunciada oralmente numa palavra vem a se tornar nasal em razão da influência de outro som também nasal Pronounced /na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃].

Key facts for nasalização
PropertyValue
Headwordnasalização
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

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nasalização 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 nasalização is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for nasalização 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 nasalização, spelled N-A-S-A-L-I-Z-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    processo da fonologia onde uma vogal pronunciada oralmente numa palavra vem a se tornar nasal em razão da influência de outro som também nasal
  2. 2
    parte da gramática histórica que estuda esse processo em uma língua (como tipo de metaplasmo)
  3. 3
    falar com o som nasalizado, fanho, em razão de algum problema físico (geralmente de origem na malformação do feto) no aparelho fonador (como, v. g., a fissura do palato) que faz com que os sons escapem pela cavidade nasal

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How do you spell "nasalização"?
"nasalização" is spelled N-A-S-A-L-I-Z-A-Ç-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃].
What does "nasalização" mean?
As a noun, "nasalização" means: processo da fonologia onde uma vogal pronunciada oralmente numa palavra vem a se tornar nasal em razão da influência de outro som também nasal
How do you pronounce "nasalização"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nasalização" is /na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [na.za.li.zaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nasalização" 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.