opistótono

//o.pisˈtɔ.to.nu// noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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opistótono is aPortuguesenoun. It means: espasmo muscular intenso, comumente associado ao tétano no ser humano, que provoca um estado de hiperextensão e contração severa onde a cabeça, o pescoço e a coluna vertebral do indivíduo entram em... Pronounced /o.pisˈtɔ.to.nu/.

Key facts for opistótono
PropertyValue
Headwordopistótono
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/o.pisˈtɔ.to.nu/
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

opistótono 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 opistótono is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /o.pisˈtɔ.to.nu/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "espasmo muscular intenso, comumente associado ao tétano no ser humano, que provoca um estado de hiperextensão e contração severa onde a cabeça, o pescoço e a coluna vertebral do indivíduo entram em...".

No misspelling variants are generated for opistótono 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 opistótono, spelled O-P-I-S-T-Ó-T-O-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    espasmo muscular intenso, comumente associado ao tétano no ser humano, que provoca um estado de hiperextensão e contração severa onde a cabeça, o pescoço e a coluna vertebral do indivíduo entram em uma posição completa de "ponte" ou "arqueamento", causada por espasmos dos músculos axiais ao longo da coluna vertebral e que ocorre em aves, serpentes com a doença do corpúsculo de inclusão viral, nos mamíferos placentários, sendo ainda constatada em fósseis de dinossauros, causada por doenças (como meningite em bebês, o tétano, hidrocefalia aguda grave, etc.), envenenamento (por substâncias como lítio, estricnina ou ácido prússico, por exemplo) e afogamento

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "opistótono"?
"opistótono" is spelled O-P-I-S-T-Ó-T-O-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is /o.pisˈtɔ.to.nu/.
What does "opistótono" mean?
As a noun, "opistótono" means: espasmo muscular intenso, comumente associado ao tétano no ser humano, que provoca um estado de hiperextensão e contração severa onde a cabeça, o pescoço e a coluna vertebral do indivíduo entram em...
How do you pronounce "opistótono"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "opistótono" is /o.pisˈtɔ.to.nu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.