ASCII
The verdict
“ASCII” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,091 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,091
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - código padrão para representação em bytes de letras, números, símbolos e outros caracteres de pontuação nos computadores
Corpus desk
Index PT-ascii · ASCII · Portuguese
ASCII · rank #76,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,091
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH assintomático
Nearest frequency peer: assintomático (+6 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 “ASCII”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- announcement
announcement
23,929 corpus weight
- apodrecimen…
apodrecimento
23,922 corpus weight
- aren't
aren't
23,917 corpus weight
- ASCII
ASCII
23,910 corpus weight
- assintomáti…
assintomático
23,904 corpus weight
- atribulado
atribulado
23,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ASCII” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ASCII |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ASCII” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ASCII is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,091 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "código padrão para representação em bytes de letras, números, símbolos e outros caracteres de pontuação nos computadores".
ASCII has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ASCII, spelled A-S-C-I-I.
Definition
- 1código padrão para representação em bytes de letras, números, símbolos e outros caracteres de pontuação nos computadores
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ASCII appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A letra A é representada por 0100 0001 (binário) em ASCII.
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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