alienista
The verdict
“alienista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,020 among 4,352 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,020
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - médico que trata de doenças da mente
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alienista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alienista” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
alienista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,020 among 4,352 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "médico que trata de doenças da mente".
alienista has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is alienista, spelled A-L-I-E-N-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1médico que trata de doenças da mente
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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Using “alienista”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-L-I-E-N-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.