alternado
/aɫ.tɨɾ.ˈna.du/
The verdict
“alternado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,258 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,258
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que vem ou acontece em turnos, um depois do outro
Corpus desk
Index PT-alternado · alternado · Portuguese
alternado · rank #65,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,258
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH antisséptico
Nearest frequency peer: antisséptico (+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 “alternado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- admiravelme…
admiravelmente
34,762 corpus weight
- afasia
afasia
34,759 corpus weight
- ahi
ahi
34,755 corpus weight
- alternado
alternado
34,743 corpus weight
- antisséptico
antisséptico
34,739 corpus weight
- Apolónia
Apolónia
34,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alternado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alternado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /aɫ.tɨɾ.ˈna.du/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alternado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alternado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,258 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /aɫ.tɨɾ.ˈna.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que vem ou acontece em turnos, um depois do outro".
alternado has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is alternado, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1que vem ou acontece em turnos, um depois do outro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alternado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Propuseram, então, o cumprimento alternado das penas por Estevam e Sonia.
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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