ampere
/ã.ˈpɛ.ɾi/
The verdict
“ampere” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #90,665 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,665
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unidade de medida de corrente elétrica equivalente à passagem de 1 C de carga elétrica por um ponto em 1 segundo
Corpus desk
Index PT-ampere · ampere · Portuguese
ampere · rank #90,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH amistad
Nearest frequency peer: amistad (-2 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 “ampere”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- abaixamento
abaixamento
9,382 corpus weight
- aby
aby
9,372 corpus weight
- amistad
amistad
9,338 corpus weight
- ampere
ampere
9,336 corpus weight
- apascentar
apascentar
9,322 corpus weight
- atrofiar
atrofiar
9,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ampere” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ampere |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ã.ˈpɛ.ɾi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ampere” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ampere is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #90,665 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ã.ˈpɛ.ɾi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unidade de medida de corrente elétrica equivalente à passagem de 1 C de carga elétrica por um ponto em 1 segundo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ampere, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ampere, spelled A-M-P-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1unidade de medida de corrente elétrica equivalente à passagem de 1 C de carga elétrica por um ponto em 1 segundo
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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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