3D
The verdict
“3D” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #5,482 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #5,482
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - tridimensional, que está ou aparenta estar em três dimensões
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | 3D |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “3D” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for 3D is 2 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #5,482 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "tridimensional, que está ou aparenta estar em três dimensões".
3D doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is 3D, spelled 3-D.
Definition
- 1tridimensional, que está ou aparenta estar em três dimensões
Synonyms
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 “3D”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is 3-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.