congestão
The verdict
“congestão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,416 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,416
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - acúmulo anormal de líquidos ou fluidos
Corpus desk
Index PT-congestao · congestão · Portuguese
congestão · rank #58,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,416
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH condimento
Nearest frequency peer: condimento (-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 “congestão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cimentar
cimentar
41,598 corpus weight
- claríssimo
claríssimo
41,596 corpus weight
- condimento
condimento
41,586 corpus weight
- congestão
congestão
41,585 corpus weight
- corrector
corrector
41,577 corpus weight
- Cruiser
Cruiser
41,573 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “congestão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congestão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “congestão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
congestão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,416 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for congestão, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is congestão, spelled C-O-N-G-E-S-T-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1acúmulo anormal de líquidos ou fluidos
- 2ato ou efeito de congestionar; aglomeração
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how congestão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
congestão nasal
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).