contíguo
/kõ.ˈʧi.gwu/
The verdict
“contíguo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,605 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,605
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que está em contato; adjacente; junto; próximo
Corpus desk
Index PT-contiguo · contíguo · Portuguese
contíguo · rank #74,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,605
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH compleição
Nearest frequency peer: compleição (-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 “contíguo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- choroso
choroso
25,423 corpus weight
- classicamen…
classicamente
25,417 corpus weight
- cogito
cogito
25,412 corpus weight
- compleição
compleição
25,406 corpus weight
- contíguo
contíguo
25,396 corpus weight
- debochar
debochar
25,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “contíguo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contíguo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kõ.ˈʧi.gwu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “contíguo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
contíguo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,605 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kõ.ˈʧi.gwu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que está em contato; adjacente; junto; próximo".
contíguo has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is contíguo, spelled C-O-N-T-Í-G-U-O.
Definition
- 1que está em contato; adjacente; junto; próximo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contíguo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Em suas décadas áureas, o hotel - e o restaurante contíguo - era refinado ponto de encontro de autoridades, intelectuais e artistas.
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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