coulomb
/ˈku.lõb/ ou /ku.ˈlõb/
The verdict
“coulomb” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,594 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,594
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ver colômbio
Corpus desk
Index PT-coulomb · coulomb · Portuguese
coulomb · rank #98,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,594
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH corneto
Nearest frequency peer: corneto (-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 “coulomb”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- corisco
corisco
1,410 corpus weight
- corneto
corneto
1,409 corpus weight
- coulomb
coulomb
1,407 corpus weight
- cruzeta
cruzeta
1,397 corpus weight
- culhão
culhão
1,395 corpus weight
- cálido
cálido
1,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “coulomb” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coulomb |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈku.lõb/ ou /ku.ˈlõb/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “coulomb” em português
Rare enough to double-check
coulomb is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,594 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈku.lõb/ ou /ku.ˈlõb/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ver colômbio".
No misspelling variants are generated for coulomb in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is coulomb, spelled C-O-U-L-O-M-B.
Definition
- 1ver colômbio
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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