empirismo

noun

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The verdict

“empirismo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,084 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,084
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,279
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - doutrina segundo a qual todo conhecimento provém unicamente da experiência, limitando-se ao que pode ser captado do mundo externo, pelos sentidos, ou do mundo subjetivo, pela introspecção, sendo ge...

Corpus desk

Index PT-empirismo · empirismo · Portuguese

empirismo · rank #59,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,084
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,279
  • PHOTO-FINISH entrelaçamento

Nearest frequency peer: entrelaçamento (+11 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 “empirismo”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “empirismo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for empirismo
PropertyValue
Headwordempirismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#59,084
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “empirismo” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).empirismocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “entrelaçamento” (#59,095), “escravocrata” (#59,101), “etnologia” (#59,110). Entre 1,279 lemas com “E”, “empirismo” fica em #59,084. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

empirismo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,084 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for empirismo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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 empirismo, spelled E-M-P-I-R-I-S-M-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    doutrina segundo a qual todo conhecimento provém unicamente da experiência, limitando-se ao que pode ser captado do mundo externo, pelos sentidos, ou do mundo subjetivo, pela introspecção, sendo geralmente descartadas as verdades reveladas e transcendentes do misticismo, ou apriorísticas e inatas do racionalismo
  2. 2
    atitude de quem se atém a conhecimentos práticos
  3. 3
    atitude de quem se atém a conhecimentos práticos
  4. 4
    (Derivação: por extensão de sentido) o mesmo que charlatanice

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how empirismo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. racionalismo

Synonyms

empiricismo

This word in other languages

empiricism(English)empirismo(Español)empirisme(Français)Empirismus(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "empirismo"?
"empirismo" is spelled E-M-P-I-R-I-S-M-O.
What does "empirismo" mean?
As a noun, "empirismo" means: doutrina segundo a qual todo conhecimento provém unicamente da experiência, limitando-se ao que pode ser captado do mundo externo, pelos sentidos, ou do mundo subjetivo, pela introspecção, sendo ge...
What language does "empirismo" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "empirismo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

etnologia#59,110falatório#59,120Godofredo#59,162castrense#58,991

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list