paládio

//pɐ.ˈla.dju// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#63,055

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

paládio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: elemento químico de símbolo Pd, possui o número atômico 46 e massa atômica relativa 106,42 u; é um metal, branco prateado, obtido em minerais da família da platina em rochas de formação vulcânica, ... Pronounced /pɐ.ˈla.dju/.

Key facts for paládio
PropertyValue
Headwordpaládio
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/pɐ.ˈla.dju/
Letters7
Frequency rank#63,055
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of paládio in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for paládio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɐ.ˈla.dju/. Corpus data places it at rank #63,055 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for paládio 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 paládio, spelled P-A-L-Á-D-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    elemento químico de símbolo Pd, possui o número atômico 46 e massa atômica relativa 106,42 u; é um metal, branco prateado, obtido em minerais da família da platina em rochas de formação vulcânica, como a peridotita ou a norita; é empregado em contatos elétricos de sistemas eletromecânicos e como catalisador de reações de hidrogenização na indústria petrolífera; é utilizado também como descolorizante do ouro na fabricação do ouro branco
  2. 2
    estátua de Palas, deusa que protege Troia
  3. 3
    proteção, garantia

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #63,055 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paládio"?
"paládio" is spelled P-A-L-Á-D-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is /pɐ.ˈla.dju/.
What does "paládio" mean?
As a noun, "paládio" means: elemento químico de símbolo Pd, possui o número atômico 46 e massa atômica relativa 106,42 u; é um metal, branco prateado, obtido em minerais da família da platina em rochas de formação vulcânica, ...
How do you pronounce "paládio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paládio" is /pɐ.ˈla.dju/. 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.