alopecia
/ɐlopeˈsiːɐ/
The verdict
“alopecia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,494 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,494
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - perda temporária ou definitiva, senil ou prematura, total ou parcial, de pelos ou cabelos
Corpus desk
Index PT-alopecia · alopecia · Portuguese
alopecia · rank #83,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,494
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH amostrar
Nearest frequency peer: amostrar (+9 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 “alopecia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- zilhão
zilhão
16,547 corpus weight
- abada
abada
16,535 corpus weight
- abjeto
abjeto
16,534 corpus weight
- adulação
adulação
16,521 corpus weight
- alopecia
alopecia
16,507 corpus weight
- amostrar
amostrar
16,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alopecia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alopecia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐlopeˈsiːɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alopecia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alopecia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,494 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɐlopeˈsiːɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "perda temporária ou definitiva, senil ou prematura, total ou parcial, de pelos ou cabelos".
No generated misspelling entries exist for alopecia in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is alopecia, spelled A-L-O-P-E-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1perda temporária ou definitiva, senil ou prematura, total ou parcial, de pelos ou cabelos
Synonyms
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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