anacrônico

adj

The verdict

“anacrônico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,945 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,945
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,900
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que contém elementos estranhos ao contexto temporal no qual está inserido

Corpus desk

Index PT-anacronico · anacrônico · Portuguese

anacrônico · rank #61,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,945
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,900
  • PHOTO-FINISH anatomicamente

Nearest frequency peer: anatomicamente (+1 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 “anacrônico”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “anacrônico” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for anacrônico
PropertyValue
Headwordanacrônico
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Frequency rank#61,945
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “anacrônico” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).anacrônicocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “anatomicamente” (#61,946), “allure” (#61,941), “anglófono” (#61,949). Entre 1,900 lemas com “A”, “anacrônico” fica em #61,945. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

anacrônico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,945 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

anacrônico has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 anacrônico, spelled A-N-A-C-R-Ô-N-I-C-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que contém elementos estranhos ao contexto temporal no qual está inserido
  2. 2
    que contém anacronismo
  3. 3
    fora de moda

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how anacrônico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Um homem das cavernas pilotando um avião, um dinossauro nas ruas de São Paulo e um automóvel em meio a uma batalha medieval são exemplos de situações anacrônicas.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "anacrônico"?
"anacrônico" is spelled A-N-A-C-R-Ô-N-I-C-O.
What does "anacrônico" mean?
As an adjective, "anacrônico" means: que contém elementos estranhos ao contexto temporal no qual está inserido
What language does "anacrônico" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "anacrônico", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list