contorcer
/kõ.tuɾ.ˈseɾ/
The verdict
“contorcer” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,021 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,021
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - torcer muito
Corpus desk
Index PT-contorcer · contorcer · Portuguese
contorcer · rank #68,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,021
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH consignação
Nearest frequency peer: consignação (-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 “contorcer”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- claim
claim
31,997 corpus weight
- consignação
consignação
31,981 corpus weight
- contorcer
contorcer
31,980 corpus weight
- contracenar
contracenar
31,979 corpus weight
- cornija
cornija
31,975 corpus weight
- correo
correo
31,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “contorcer” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contorcer |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kõ.tuɾ.ˈseɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “contorcer” em português
Rare enough to double-check
contorcer is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,021 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kõ.tuɾ.ˈseɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for contorcer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is contorcer, spelled C-O-N-T-O-R-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1torcer muito
- 2dobrar
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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