criterioso
The verdict
“criterioso” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,954 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,954
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que age ou é feito com critério, discernimento ou rigor na avaliação ou escolha
Corpus desk
Index PT-criterioso · criterioso · Portuguese
criterioso · rank #81,954 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,954
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cronicamente
Nearest frequency peer: cronicamente (+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 “criterioso”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- confidência
confidência
18,064 corpus weight
- corredeira
corredeira
18,053 corpus weight
- criterioso
criterioso
18,047 corpus weight
- cronicamente
cronicamente
18,046 corpus weight
- deleção
deleção
18,029 corpus weight
- derrapar
derrapar
18,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “criterioso” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criterioso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “criterioso” em português
Rare enough to double-check
criterioso is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,954 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
criterioso doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is criterioso, spelled C-R-I-T-E-R-I-O-S-O.
Definition
- 1que age ou é feito com critério, discernimento ou rigor na avaliação ou escolha
- 2que demonstra exigência ou precisão em suas decisões ou preferências
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how criterioso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O juiz foi bastante criterioso ao analisar as provas do processo
Ela tem um gosto criterioso para literatura
Antonyms
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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