curiosity
/ˌkjʊərɪˈɒsɪti/
The verdict
“curiosity” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,540 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,540
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - curiosidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-curiosity · curiosity · Portuguese
curiosity · rank #51,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,540
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH corn
Nearest frequency peer: corn (-14 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 “curiosity”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- contentor
contentor
48,481 corpus weight
- contrabandi…
contrabandista
48,479 corpus weight
- contracultu…
contracultura
48,477 corpus weight
- corn
corn
48,475 corpus weight
- curiosity
curiosity
48,461 corpus weight
- descontração
descontração
48,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “curiosity” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curiosity |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌkjʊərɪˈɒsɪti/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “curiosity” em português
Rare enough to double-check
curiosity is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,540 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌkjʊərɪˈɒsɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "curiosidade".
curiosity has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 curiosity, spelled C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1curiosidade
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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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