congênito
/kõw.ˈʒẽj.ni.tu/
The verdict
“congênito” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,846 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,846
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gerado no mesmo instante
Corpus desk
Index PT-congenito · congênito · Portuguese
congênito · rank #60,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,846
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH confraternizar
Nearest frequency peer: confraternizar (-1 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 “congênito”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- coincidente
coincidente
39,170 corpus weight
- concordata
concordata
39,159 corpus weight
- condescende…
condescendente
39,157 corpus weight
- confraterni…
confraternizar
39,156 corpus weight
- congênito
congênito
39,155 corpus weight
- cul
cul
39,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “congênito” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congênito |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kõw.ˈʒẽj.ni.tu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “congênito” em português
Rare enough to double-check
congênito is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,846 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kõw.ˈʒẽj.ni.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for congênito, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 congênito, spelled C-O-N-G-Ê-N-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1gerado no mesmo instante
- 2nascido com o indivíduo
- 3apropriado
Synonyms
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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