centúria
/sẽ.ˈtu.ɾjɐ/
The verdict
“centúria” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,540 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,540
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - centenário, século
Corpus desk
Index PT-centuria · centúria · Portuguese
centúria · rank #98,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,540
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cardinalício
Nearest frequency peer: cardinalício (-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 “centúria”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bouça
bouça
1,504 corpus weight
- cardinalício
cardinalício
1,475 corpus weight
- centúria
centúria
1,461 corpus weight
- coercitivo
coercitivo
1,435 corpus weight
- corisco
corisco
1,410 corpus weight
- corneto
corneto
1,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “centúria” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | centúria |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sẽ.ˈtu.ɾjɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “centúria” em português
Rare enough to double-check
centúria is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,540 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sẽ.ˈtu.ɾjɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for centúria 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is centúria, spelled C-E-N-T-Ú-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1centenário, século
- 2conjunto de cem objetos da mesma espécie
- 3narração histórica dividida em períodos seculares
- 4unidade da legião romana, com cem legionários e comandada por um centurião
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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