pirilampo
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#77,434
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
pirilampo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome comum a várias espécies de coleópteros (das famílias Elateridae, Phengodidae e Lampyridae) que têm a propriedade de emitir bioluminescência, via de regra na fase adulta e eventualmente também ... Pronounced /pi.ɾi.ˈlɐ̃.pu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pirilampo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pi.ɾi.ˈlɐ̃.pu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pirilampo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pi.ɾi.ˈlɐ̃.pu/. Corpus data places it at rank #77,434 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pirilampo 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 pirilampo, spelled P-I-R-I-L-A-M-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome comum a várias espécies de coleópteros (das famílias Elateridae, Phengodidae e Lampyridae) que têm a propriedade de emitir bioluminescência, via de regra na fase adulta e eventualmente também na fase larval, por meio de órgãos especiais onde a luciferina é oxidada pelo oxigênio nuclear com mediação da enzima luciferase, resultando em oxiluciferina e que, assim, emite luz
- 2toda luz ou foco fosforescente que faz lembrar a emitida pelo inseto
- 3fogo de artifício de pequeno efeito
- 4sinal luminoso que encima veículos com prioridade no trânsito a indicar urgência ou atenção aos demais motoristas e transeuntes
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #77,434 in Portuguese
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "pirilampo"?
What does "pirilampo" mean?
How do you pronounce "pirilampo"?
What language does "pirilampo" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index: