cercear
The verdict
“cercear” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,687 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,687
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cortar pela raiz
Corpus desk
Index PT-cercear · cercear · Portuguese
cercear · rank #68,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,687
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH clivagem
Nearest frequency peer: clivagem (+10 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 “cercear”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bosse
bosse
31,343 corpus weight
- cercear
cercear
31,314 corpus weight
- clivagem
clivagem
31,304 corpus weight
- confinar
confinar
31,290 corpus weight
- consider
consider
31,288 corpus weight
- corpóreo
corpóreo
31,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cercear” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cercear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cercear” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cercear is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,687 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cortar pela raiz".
cercear doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cercear, spelled C-E-R-C-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1cortar pela raiz
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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