bacteriano

adj

The verdict

“bacteriano” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,981 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,981
frequency rank, Portuguese
840
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à bactéria

Corpus desk

Index PT-bacteriano · bacteriano · Portuguese

bacteriano · rank #61,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,981
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 840
  • PHOTO-FINISH balbúrdia

Nearest frequency peer: balbúrdia (+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 “bacteriano”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bacteriano” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bacteriano
PropertyValue
Headwordbacteriano
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Frequency rank#61,981
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “bacteriano” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.bacterianocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “balbúrdia” (#61,983), “baleeiro” (#61,984), “antílope” (#61,953). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “bacteriano” fica em #61,981. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bacteriano is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,981 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "relativo à bactéria".

No generated misspelling entries exist for bacteriano in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bacteriano, spelled B-A-C-T-E-R-I-A-N-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo à bactéria

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how bacteriano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Isso pode soar como uma enorme perda de oxigênio, mas ele foi amplamente espalhado, de modo que o processo bacteriano não contribuiu para uma condição de baixa oxigenação conhecida como hipoxia.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bacteriano"?
"bacteriano" is spelled B-A-C-T-E-R-I-A-N-O.
What does "bacteriano" mean?
As an adjective, "bacteriano" means: relativo à bactéria
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bacteriano", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list