antepenúltimo
/ɐ̃.tɨ.pɨ.ˈnuɫ.ti.mu/
The verdict
“antepenúltimo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #96,402 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,402
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquele que numa competição, corrida, etc, chega à frente do penúltimo
Corpus desk
Index PT-antepenultimo · antepenúltimo · Portuguese
antepenúltimo · rank #96,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,402
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH arguição
Nearest frequency peer: arguição (+13 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 “antepenúltimo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- adestrar
adestrar
3,630 corpus weight
- antepenúlti…
antepenúltimo
3,599 corpus weight
- arguição
arguição
3,586 corpus weight
- arquitetural
arquitetural
3,583 corpus weight
- arrematar
arrematar
3,577 corpus weight
- ascese
ascese
3,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “antepenúltimo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “antepenúltimo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
antepenúltimo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #96,402 among 1,900 “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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).