empadão
/ẽ.pɐ.ˈdɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“empadão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,853 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,853
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - empada em forma de torta
Corpus desk
Index PT-empadao · empadão · Portuguese
empadão · rank #53,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,853
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH egocentrismo
Nearest frequency peer: egocentrismo (-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 “empadão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- diligenteme…
diligentemente
46,168 corpus weight
- druida
druida
46,157 corpus weight
- egocentrismo
egocentrismo
46,152 corpus weight
- empadão
empadão
46,148 corpus weight
- endócrino
endócrino
46,140 corpus weight
- fiduciário
fiduciário
46,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “empadão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empadão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ẽ.pɐ.ˈdɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “empadão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
empadão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,853 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ẽ.pɐ.ˈdɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for empadão, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is empadão, spelled E-M-P-A-D-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1empada em forma de torta
- 2aumentativo de empada
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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