cicuta
/si.ˈku.tɐ/
The verdict
“cicuta” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,594 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,594
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - designação comum às ervas do gênero Cicuta, da família das umbelíferas
Corpus desk
Index PT-cicuta · cicuta · Portuguese
cicuta · rank #71,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,594
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH companion
Nearest frequency peer: companion (+15 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 “cicuta”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cateterismo
cateterismo
28,428 corpus weight
- cavernoso
cavernoso
28,426 corpus weight
- cicuta
cicuta
28,407 corpus weight
- companion
companion
28,392 corpus weight
- completely
completely
28,390 corpus weight
- concernente
concernente
28,389 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cicuta” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cicuta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.ˈku.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cicuta” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cicuta is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,594 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /si.ˈku.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cicuta has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is cicuta, spelled C-I-C-U-T-A.
Definition
- 1designação comum às ervas do gênero Cicuta, da família das umbelíferas
- 2designação comum às plantas do gênero Conium, especialmente a Conium maculatum
- 3suco extremamente venenoso extraído de qualquer uma dessas plantas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cicuta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sócrates foi condenado a beber cicuta.
Synonyms
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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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