vanádio
/vɐ.ˈna.dju/
The verdict
“vanádio” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #84,339 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #84,339
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - elemento químico de símbolo V, possui o número atômico 23 e massa atômica relativa 50,941; é encontrado muito disperso na natureza, principalmente, nos minérios patronita e carnotita; é utilizado c...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vanádio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɐ.ˈna.dju/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vanádio” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for vanádio is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /vɐ.ˈna.dju/. Corpus data places it at rank #84,339 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 V, possui o número atômico 23 e massa atômica relativa 50,941; é encontrado muito disperso na natureza, principalmente, nos minérios patronita e carnotita; é utilizado c...".
Zero misspellings are on record for vanádio in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is vanádio, spelled V-A-N-Á-D-I-O.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo V, possui o número atômico 23 e massa atômica relativa 50,941; é encontrado muito disperso na natureza, principalmente, nos minérios patronita e carnotita; é utilizado como catalisador na indústria química, para produção de ácido sulfúrico; também é utilizado em ligas metálicas com o ferro, alumínio e titânio
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “vanádio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is V-A-N-Á-D-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /vɐ.ˈna.dju/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.