controvertido
The verdict
“controvertido” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,659 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,659
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que causa desentendimento, polêmica
Corpus desk
Index PT-controvertido · controvertido · Portuguese
controvertido · rank #83,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,659
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH contralto
Nearest frequency peer: contralto (-2 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 “controvertido”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- contrabaixi…
contrabaixista
16,345 corpus weight
- contralto
contralto
16,344 corpus weight
- controverti…
controvertido
16,342 corpus weight
- copeira
copeira
16,338 corpus weight
- COPOM
COPOM
16,337 corpus weight
- copular
copular
16,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “controvertido” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | controvertido |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #83,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “controvertido” em português
Rare enough to double-check
controvertido is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,659 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for controvertido, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is controvertido, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-T-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1que causa desentendimento, polêmica
- 2que se controverteu
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how controvertido appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uma das figuras mais controvertidas e provocadoras da arena cultural do País, o músico Lobão ganhou os holofotes também fora dos palcos, com seu ativismo político.
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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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