selénio

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for selénio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɨˈłɛnju/. Corpus data places it at rank #95,208 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "elemento químico de símbolo Se, possui o número atômico 34 e massa atômica relativa 78,96 u; é um não metal, sólido na temperatura ambiente, obtido principalmente como subproduto da refinação do co...".

No misspelling variants are generated for selénio 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 selénio, spelled S-E-L-É-N-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.