antepenúltimo
/ɐ̃.tɨ.pɨ.ˈnuɫ.ti.mu/
The verdict
“antepenúltimo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #96,402 among 4,352 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,402
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aquele que numa competição, corrida, etc, chega à frente do penúltimo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antepenúltimo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ̃.tɨ.pɨ.ˈnuɫ.ti.mu/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #96,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “antepenúltimo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
antepenúltimo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #96,402 among 4,352 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɐ̃.tɨ.pɨ.ˈnuɫ.ti.mu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aquele que numa competição, corrida, etc, chega à frente do penúltimo".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antepenúltimo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 antepenúltimo, spelled A-N-T-E-P-E-N-Ú-L-T-I-M-O.
Definition
- 1aquele que numa competição, corrida, etc, chega à frente do penúltimo
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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Using “antepenúltimo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-T-E-P-E-N-Ú-L-T-I-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.