adular
/ɐ.du.ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“adular” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,375 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,375
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - agir no sentido a agradar alguém
Corpus desk
Index PT-adular · adular · Portuguese
adular · rank #97,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,375
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH acupunturista
Nearest frequency peer: acupunturista (-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 “adular”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- abafador
abafador
2,657 corpus weight
- acupunturis…
acupunturista
2,633 corpus weight
- adular
adular
2,626 corpus weight
- albedo
albedo
2,610 corpus weight
- algibeira
algibeira
2,607 corpus weight
- arretado
arretado
2,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “adular” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adular |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.du.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “adular” em português
Rare enough to double-check
adular is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,375 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ.du.ˈlaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
adular has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is adular, spelled A-D-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1agir no sentido a agradar alguém
- 2admirar
- 3fazer carícias, acariciar, acarinhar
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); 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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