vacúolo

/vaˈku.o.lu// noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

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/.

Key facts for vacúolo
PropertyValue
Headwordvacúolo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPAvaˈku.o.lu/
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vacúolo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    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 nutrientes ou de excreção, regulatório da quantidade de água absorvida por osmose, acúmulo de gorduras nas células adiposas, reciclagem autofágica, etc.
  2. 2
    inclusões 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vacúolo"?
"vacúolo" is spelled V-A-C-Ú-O-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is vaˈku.o.lu/.
What does "vacúolo" mean?
As a noun, "vacúolo" 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...
How do you pronounce "vacúolo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vacúolo" is vaˈku.o.lu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vacúolo" come from?
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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.