deliciar
/dɨ.li.ˈsjaɾ/
The verdict
“deliciar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,247 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,247
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - causar delícia a
Corpus desk
Index PT-deliciar · deliciar · Portuguese
deliciar · rank #57,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,247
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH degola
Nearest frequency peer: degola (-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 “deliciar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- constrição
constrição
42,780 corpus weight
- cotovia
cotovia
42,771 corpus weight
- degola
degola
42,755 corpus weight
- deliciar
deliciar
42,754 corpus weight
- dictionary
dictionary
42,734 corpus weight
- distrofia
distrofia
42,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “deliciar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deliciar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨ.li.ˈsjaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “deliciar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
deliciar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,247 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɨ.li.ˈsjaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "causar delícia a".
No misspelling variants are generated for deliciar in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 deliciar, spelled D-E-L-I-C-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1causar delícia a
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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