clivagem
/kli.ˈva.ʒɐ̃j̃/
The verdict
“clivagem” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,697 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,697
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - em certos cristais, propriedade de se dividir em planos paralelos
Corpus desk
Index PT-clivagem · clivagem · Portuguese
clivagem · rank #68,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,697
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cercear
Nearest frequency peer: cercear (-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 “clivagem”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- cânfora
cânfora
31,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “clivagem” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clivagem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kli.ˈva.ʒɐ̃j̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “clivagem” em português
Rare enough to double-check
clivagem is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,697 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kli.ˈva.ʒɐ̃j̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
clivagem has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 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 clivagem, spelled C-L-I-V-A-G-E-M.
Definition
- 1em certos cristais, propriedade de se dividir em planos paralelos
- 2separação ou diferenciação de grupos sociais ou étnicos
This word in other languages
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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