cardinalício
/kɐrdinɐˈlisju/
The verdict
“cardinalício” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,526 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,526
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo ou pertencente a cardeal
Corpus desk
Index PT-cardinalicio · cardinalício · Portuguese
cardinalício · rank #98,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,526
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH centúria
Nearest frequency peer: centúria (+14 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 “cardinalício”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bananinha
bananinha
1,540 corpus weight
- blew
blew
1,514 corpus weight
- bouça
bouça
1,504 corpus weight
- cardinalício
cardinalício
1,475 corpus weight
- centúria
centúria
1,461 corpus weight
- coercitivo
coercitivo
1,435 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cardinalício” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cardinalício |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kɐrdinɐˈlisju/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #98,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cardinalício” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cardinalício is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,526 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kɐrdinɐˈlisju/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "relativo ou pertencente a cardeal".
cardinalício doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 cardinalício, spelled C-A-R-D-I-N-A-L-Í-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1relativo ou pertencente a cardeal
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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