nimbo
Letters
5 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
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nimbo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: grande nuvem cinzenta, espessa e de baixa altitude, que precipita facilmente em chuva ou neve Pronounced /'nĩ.bu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nimbo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'nĩ.bu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for nimbo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /'nĩ.bu/. 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 nimbo 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 nimbo, spelled N-I-M-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1grande nuvem cinzenta, espessa e de baixa altitude, que precipita facilmente em chuva ou neve
- 2círculo luminoso que circula a cabeça das imagens dos santos; auréola
- 3designação vulgar do cinamomo ou amargoseira
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