portento
[poɾˈt̪ẽn̪t̪o]
The verdict
“portento” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,280 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,280
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cualquier cosa, acción o suceso singular, que por su extrañeza o novedad causa admiración o terror dentro de los límites de la naturaleza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-portento · portento · Spanish
portento · rank #83,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,280
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH porrista
Nearest frequency peer: porrista (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “portento”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pontones
pontones
16,724 corpus weight
- pormenoriza…
pormenorizada
16,723 corpus weight
- porrista
porrista
16,722 corpus weight
- portento
portento
16,721 corpus weight
- postizos
postizos
16,719 corpus weight
- practiqué
practiqué
16,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “portento” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poɾˈt̪ẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “portento” en español
Rare enough to double-check
portento is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,280 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [poɾˈt̪ẽn̪t̪o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for portento in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is portento, spelled P-O-R-T-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1Cualquier cosa, acción o suceso singular, que por su extrañeza o novedad causa admiración o terror dentro de los límites de la naturaleza.
- 2Suma belleza.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Muchos portentos hay, pero nada es más portentoso que el hombre.
Eramos niños, habitantes de una ciudad grisácea, dura, polvorienta, donde el único portento era esa mancha verde de árboles, esa residencia de pájaros e insectos.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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