acudir
/ɐ.ku.ˈdiɾ/
The verdict
“acudir” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,236 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,236
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ir em auxílio; socorrer; responder a apelo
Corpus desk
Index PT-acudir · acudir · Portuguese
acudir · rank #65,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,236
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH admiravelmente
Nearest frequency peer: admiravelmente (+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 “acudir”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- êmbolo
êmbolo
34,782 corpus weight
- abrasivo
abrasivo
34,769 corpus weight
- acudir
acudir
34,765 corpus weight
- admiravelme…
admiravelmente
34,762 corpus weight
- afasia
afasia
34,759 corpus weight
- ahi
ahi
34,755 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “acudir” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acudir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.ku.ˈdiɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “acudir” em português
Rare enough to double-check
acudir is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,236 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ.ku.ˈdiɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
acudir has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 acudir, spelled A-C-U-D-I-R.
Definition
- 1ir em auxílio; socorrer; responder a apelo
- 2convergir; apresentar-se; afluir
- 3lembrar-se, recordar-se
- 4responder, retorquir, respingar
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acudir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se lá de cima a Guarda soberana / Não acudir à fraca força humana?
Ao repicar dos sinos, acudiram todos ao terreiro.
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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