alpiste
The verdict
“alpiste” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,693 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,693
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - planta da família das Poaceae, especialmente do gênero Phalaris, cultivada por suas sementes usadas na alimentação de aves domésticas; inclui espécies como Phalaris canariensis
Corpus desk
Index PT-alpiste · alpiste · Portuguese
alpiste · rank #73,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,693
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH Anatólia
Nearest frequency peer: Anatólia (+6 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 “alpiste”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- whether
whether
26,359 corpus weight
- ágar
ágar
26,347 corpus weight
- alpiste
alpiste
26,308 corpus weight
- Anatólia
Anatólia
26,302 corpus weight
- ansiar
ansiar
26,298 corpus weight
- atuarial
atuarial
26,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alpiste” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alpiste |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alpiste” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alpiste is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,693 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alpiste, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is alpiste, spelled A-L-P-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1planta da família das Poaceae, especialmente do gênero Phalaris, cultivada por suas sementes usadas na alimentação de aves domésticas; inclui espécies como Phalaris canariensis
- 2semente comestível, rica em proteínas e fibras, usada também na produção de leite vegetal e em dietas humanas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alpiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O alpiste é amplamente utilizado como ração para pássaros
O leite de alpiste é considerado uma alternativa nutritiva para quem busca reduzir o consumo de lactose
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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