cêntimo
/ˈsẽ.ti.mu/
The verdict
“cêntimo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,723 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,723
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - moeda que vale a centésima parte de uma unidade monetária
Corpus desk
Index PT-centimo · cêntimo · Portuguese
cêntimo · rank #64,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,723
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cópula
Nearest frequency peer: cópula (+1 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 “cêntimo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cromado
cromado
35,288 corpus weight
- croquete
croquete
35,286 corpus weight
- cêntimo
cêntimo
35,278 corpus weight
- cópula
cópula
35,277 corpus weight
- deca
deca
35,272 corpus weight
- deformar
deformar
35,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cêntimo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cêntimo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsẽ.ti.mu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cêntimo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cêntimo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,723 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsẽ.ti.mu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "moeda que vale a centésima parte de uma unidade monetária".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cêntimo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is cêntimo, spelled C-Ê-N-T-I-M-O.
Definition
- 1moeda que vale a centésima parte de uma unidade monetária
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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