abissal
/ɐ.bi.ˈsaɫ/
The verdict
“abissal” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,719 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,719
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que tem relação com abismo; o mesmo que abismal
Corpus desk
Index PT-abissal · abissal · Portuguese
abissal · rank #70,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,719
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH acolchoado
Nearest frequency peer: acolchoado (+3 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “abissal”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vedete
vedete
29,315 corpus weight
- verdejante
verdejante
29,314 corpus weight
- abissal
abissal
29,282 corpus weight
- acolchoado
acolchoado
29,279 corpus weight
- agraciar
agraciar
29,272 corpus weight
- anestesiolo…
anestesiologia
29,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “abissal” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abissal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ.bi.ˈsaɫ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “abissal” em português
Rare enough to double-check
abissal is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,719 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɐ.bi.ˈsaɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for abissal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is abissal, spelled A-B-I-S-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1que tem relação com abismo; o mesmo que abismal
- 2superior a 2000 metros de profundidade
- 3diz-se dos peixes que vivem em enormes profundidades
- 4imenso
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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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