cercanias
/sɨɾ.kɐ.ˈni.ɐʃ/
The verdict
“cercanias” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,394 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,394
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vizinhança, proximidade, imediações
Corpus desk
Index PT-cercanias · cercanias · Portuguese
cercanias · rank #58,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,394
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH caucasiano
Nearest frequency peer: caucasiano (-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 “cercanias”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- carimbar
carimbar
41,613 corpus weight
- caucasiano
caucasiano
41,610 corpus weight
- cercanias
cercanias
41,607 corpus weight
- charneca
charneca
41,603 corpus weight
- cimentar
cimentar
41,598 corpus weight
- claríssimo
claríssimo
41,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cercanias” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cercanias |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɨɾ.kɐ.ˈni.ɐʃ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cercanias” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cercanias is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,394 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɨɾ.kɐ.ˈni.ɐʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
cercanias has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 cercanias, spelled C-E-R-C-A-N-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1vizinhança, proximidade, imediações
- 2subúrbio
- 3arredores
- 4imediações
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cercanias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Era o terror da cercania onde morava / E na escola até o professor com ele aprendeu."
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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