vacúolo
Letters
7 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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vacúolo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome comum a um tipo de estrutura celular contida no citoplasma das células (bastante numerosa nas vegetais), de forma esférica ou ovalar, cujo conteúdo fluido pode ser de armazenamento de nutrient... Pronounced vaˈku.o.lu/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacúolo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | vaˈku.o.lu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for vacúolo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as vaˈku.o.lu/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vacúolo 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 vacúolo, spelled V-A-C-Ú-O-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome comum a um tipo de estrutura celular contida no citoplasma das células (bastante numerosa nas vegetais), de forma esférica ou ovalar, cujo conteúdo fluido pode ser de armazenamento de nutrientes ou de excreção, regulatório da quantidade de água absorvida por osmose, acúmulo de gorduras nas células adiposas, reciclagem autofágica, etc.
- 2inclusões com líquidos e/ou gases que surgem aprisionados no processo de cristalização durante o resfriamento do magma que lhe deu origem ou do seu aprisionamento durante a formação, como no caso do âmbar
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