crepuscular
/kɾɨ.puʃ.ku.ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“crepuscular” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,596 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,596
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - do, ou pertencente ou relativo ao crepúsculo
Corpus desk
Index PT-crepuscular · crepuscular · Portuguese
crepuscular · rank #84,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,596
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH crac
Nearest frequency peer: crac (-4 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 “crepuscular”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- complementa…
complementarmente
15,438 corpus weight
- crac
crac
15,409 corpus weight
- crepuscular
crepuscular
15,405 corpus weight
- deia
deia
15,389 corpus weight
- desapropria…
desapropriado
15,381 corpus weight
- deserve
deserve
15,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “crepuscular” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crepuscular |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kɾɨ.puʃ.ku.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “crepuscular” em português
Rare enough to double-check
crepuscular is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,596 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kɾɨ.puʃ.ku.ˈlaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crepuscular, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 crepuscular, spelled C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1do, ou pertencente ou relativo ao crepúsculo
- 2que aparece ao anoitecer
- 3declinante, decadente
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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