attempt
The verdict
“attempt” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,463 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,463
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tentativa
Corpus desk
Index PT-attempt · attempt · Portuguese
attempt · rank #84,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,463
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH atordoamento
Nearest frequency peer: atordoamento (-2 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 “attempt”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- atenuante
atenuante
15,543 corpus weight
- atordoamento
atordoamento
15,540 corpus weight
- attempt
attempt
15,538 corpus weight
- azzurra
azzurra
15,534 corpus weight
- açucareiro
açucareiro
15,533 corpus weight
- baixeza
baixeza
15,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “attempt” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attempt |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “attempt” em português
Rare enough to double-check
attempt is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,463 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
attempt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is attempt, spelled A-T-T-E-M-P-T.
Definition
- 1tentativa
- 2atentado
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attempt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An attempt to do something.
An attempt to abdicate personal responsibility.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).