cidade-estado
/sɪ.ˌda.ʤɪ.ɪʃ.ˈta.dʊ/
The verdict
“cidade-estado” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - denominação dada a cidades que correspondem a Estados, possuindo território, governo, soberania e povo próprios
Corpus desk
Index PT-cidade-estado · cidade-estado · Portuguese
cidade-estado · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cidade-estado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪ.ˌda.ʤɪ.ɪʃ.ˈta.dʊ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cidade-estado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cidade-estado is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɪ.ˌda.ʤɪ.ɪʃ.ˈta.dʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "denominação dada a cidades que correspondem a Estados, possuindo território, governo, soberania e povo próprios".
cidade-estado has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 cidade-estado, spelled C-I-D-A-D-E---E-S-T-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1denominação dada a cidades que correspondem a Estados, possuindo território, governo, soberania e povo próprios
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.