núcleo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,029
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
núcleo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: miolo da noz, avelã, amêndoa, pinhão ou de outras frutas It ranks #3,029 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with nulo and nuclear.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | núcleo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for núcleo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,029 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for núcleo, with forms such as "ncúleo", "nnúcleo", and "núccleo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nulo", "nuclear", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 núcleo, spelled N-Ú-C-L-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1miolo da noz, avelã, amêndoa, pinhão ou de outras frutas
- 2a melhor parte; o escol
- 3sede, empório
- 4elemento que ocupa a posição central de uma estrutura, centro, essência
- 5o centro de uma galáxia
- 6corpo (organela) arredondado encontrado no citoplasma das células eucarióticas
- 7corpo magnético utilizado como condutor para o fluxo magnético de uma bobina
- 8a região central de um átomo, formado por prótons e neutrons
- 9a parte central (profunda) do planeta Terra
- 10elemento do sintagma que determina o caráter nominal, ou verbal, ou adjetival da construção
- 11anel ou ciclo de um composto aromático; ciclo aromático; anel aromático
- 12cadeia cíclica; cadeia fechada; cadeia de átomos distribuídos em formato de anel
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ncúleo,nnúcleo,núccleo,núcelo,núclleo,núcloe,núlceo,úncleo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for núcleo
Misspelling Variants of "núcleo"
Frequency rank: #3,029 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Portuguese index: