adulterar
/ɐ.duɫ.tɨ.ˈɾaɾ/
The verdict
“adulterar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,275 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,275
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - falsificar
Corpus desk
Index PT-adulterar · adulterar · Portuguese
adulterar · rank #63,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,275
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ander
Nearest frequency peer: ander (+17 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 “adulterar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- verticaliza…
verticalização
36,760 corpus weight
- ácaro
ácaro
36,746 corpus weight
- adulterar
adulterar
36,726 corpus weight
- ander
ander
36,709 corpus weight
- antialérgico
antialérgico
36,704 corpus weight
- antifascista
antifascista
36,703 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “adulterar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulterar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.duɫ.tɨ.ˈɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “adulterar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
adulterar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,275 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐ.duɫ.tɨ.ˈɾaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adulterar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is adulterar, spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1falsificar
- 2corromper
- 3cometer adultério
Synonyms
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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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