contista
/kõ.ˈtiʃ.tɐ/
The verdict
“contista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,734 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,734
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - autor(a) ou escritor(a) de contos
Corpus desk
Index PT-contista · contista · Portuguese
contista · rank #62,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,734
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH coronárias
Nearest frequency peer: coronárias (+5 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 “contista”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- concessioná…
concessionário
37,280 corpus weight
- conduct
conduct
37,277 corpus weight
- contista
contista
37,267 corpus weight
- coronárias
coronárias
37,262 corpus weight
- cosmético
cosmético
37,257 corpus weight
- cromossoma
cromossoma
37,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “contista” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.ˈtiʃ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “contista” em português
Rare enough to double-check
contista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,734 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kõ.ˈtiʃ.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "autor(a) ou escritor(a) de contos".
No misspelling variants are generated for contista in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is contista, spelled C-O-N-T-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1autor(a) ou escritor(a) de contos
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).