calista
/kɐ.ˈlis.tɐ/
The verdict
“calista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #90,767 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,767
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - profissional que trata calos, unhas encravadas e outras doenças do pé
Corpus desk
Index PT-calista · calista · Portuguese
calista · rank #90,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,767
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH camorra
Nearest frequency peer: camorra (+3 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 “calista”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bleed
bleed
9,261 corpus weight
- bolsonarismo
bolsonarismo
9,257 corpus weight
- calista
calista
9,234 corpus weight
- camorra
camorra
9,231 corpus weight
- canarana
canarana
9,228 corpus weight
- clockwork
clockwork
9,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “calista” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈlis.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “calista” em português
Rare enough to double-check
calista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #90,767 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ˈlis.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "profissional que trata calos, unhas encravadas e outras doenças do pé".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for calista, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is calista, spelled C-A-L-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1profissional que trata calos, unhas encravadas e outras doenças do pé
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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