apoplexia
/ɐ.pɔ.plɛ.ˈksi.ɐ/
The verdict
“apoplexia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,427 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,427
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - perda súbita de consciência geralmente causada por hemorragia ou embolia
Corpus desk
Index PT-apoplexia · apoplexia · Portuguese
apoplexia · rank #95,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,427
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH apolítico
Nearest frequency peer: apolítico (-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 “apoplexia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- altercação
altercação
4,593 corpus weight
- anaeróbia
anaeróbia
4,586 corpus weight
- apessoado
apessoado
4,577 corpus weight
- apolítico
apolítico
4,575 corpus weight
- apoplexia
apoplexia
4,574 corpus weight
- atabaque
atabaque
4,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “apoplexia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apoplexia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ.pɔ.plɛ.ˈksi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “apoplexia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
apoplexia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,427 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɐ.pɔ.plɛ.ˈksi.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
apoplexia has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is apoplexia, spelled A-P-O-P-L-E-X-I-A.
Definition
- 1perda súbita de consciência geralmente causada por hemorragia ou embolia
- 2paralisação do movimento e da sensação
- 3moléstia que ataca videiras, secando-lhes os frutos
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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