alienista
The verdict
“alienista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,020 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,020
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - médico que trata de doenças da mente
Corpus desk
Index PT-alienista · alienista · Portuguese
alienista · rank #87,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,020
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alucinar
Nearest frequency peer: alucinar (+4 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 “alienista”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- afirmativam…
afirmativamente
12,991 corpus weight
- aguilhão
aguilhão
12,988 corpus weight
- alienista
alienista
12,981 corpus weight
- alucinar
alucinar
12,977 corpus weight
- amorfo
amorfo
12,970 corpus weight
- andrógino
andrógino
12,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alienista” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alienista” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alienista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,020 among 1,900 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alienista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1882. ASSIS, Machado de. O alienista. In: _____. Papéis avulsos. São Paulo: Editora Martin Claret, 2007. p. 19.
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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