abscissa
The verdict
“abscissa” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira coordenada cartesiana de um ponto do plano ou do espaço; distância entre um ponto do plano e o eixo vertical (eixo das ordenadas)
Corpus desk
Index PT-abscissa · abscissa · Portuguese
abscissa · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abscissa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “abscissa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
abscissa is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abscissa, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 abscissa, spelled A-B-S-C-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1primeira coordenada cartesiana de um ponto do plano ou do espaço; distância entre um ponto do plano e o eixo vertical (eixo das ordenadas)
- 2distância entre um ponto do espaço e o plano lateral de projeção
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abscissa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A abscissa do ponto (-10,-20,-30) é -10.
A abscissa do ponto (-1,3,-7) é -1.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.