acautelar
/ɐ.kaw.tɨ.ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“acautelar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,878 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,878
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - agir com cautela
Corpus desk
Index PT-acautelar · acautelar · Portuguese
acautelar · rank #58,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,878
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ímpio
Nearest frequency peer: ímpio (-7 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 “acautelar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- valoração
valoração
41,153 corpus weight
- vastamente
vastamente
41,151 corpus weight
- visado
visado
41,146 corpus weight
- ímpio
ímpio
41,130 corpus weight
- acautelar
acautelar
41,123 corpus weight
- Albertina
Albertina
41,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “acautelar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acautelar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.kaw.tɨ.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “acautelar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
acautelar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,878 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ.kaw.tɨ.ˈlaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for acautelar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is acautelar, spelled A-C-A-U-T-E-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1agir com cautela
- 2precaver
- 3prevenir
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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