cortisona
/kuɾ.ti.ˈzo.nɐ/
The verdict
“cortisona” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,440 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,440
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hormona esteroide produzida no córtex adrenal
Corpus desk
Index PT-cortisona · cortisona · Portuguese
cortisona · rank #75,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,440
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cozinheiras
Nearest frequency peer: cozinheiras (+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 “cortisona”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- contrarieda…
contrariedade
24,571 corpus weight
- coqueluche
coqueluche
24,565 corpus weight
- corneteiro
corneteiro
24,564 corpus weight
- cortisona
cortisona
24,561 corpus weight
- cozinheiras
cozinheiras
24,559 corpus weight
- cômputo
cômputo
24,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cortisona” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cortisona |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kuɾ.ti.ˈzo.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cortisona” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cortisona is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,440 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kuɾ.ti.ˈzo.nɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "hormona esteroide produzida no córtex adrenal".
Zero misspellings are on record for cortisona in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cortisona, spelled C-O-R-T-I-S-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1hormona esteroide produzida no córtex adrenal
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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