encéfalo
The verdict
“encéfalo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,821 among 2,493 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,821
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,493
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - centro do sistema nervoso em todos os animais vertebrados, e em muitos invertebrados
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encéfalo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “encéfalo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
encéfalo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,821 among 2,493 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "centro do sistema nervoso em todos os animais vertebrados, e em muitos invertebrados".
encéfalo has no tracked misspelling variants, 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 encéfalo, spelled E-N-C-É-F-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1centro do sistema nervoso em todos os animais vertebrados, e em muitos invertebrados
This word in other languages
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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Using “encéfalo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-N-C-É-F-A-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.