encéfalo
The verdict
“encéfalo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,821 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,821
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - centro do sistema nervoso em todos os animais vertebrados, e em muitos invertebrados
Corpus desk
Index PT-encefalo · encéfalo · Portuguese
encéfalo · rank #62,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,821
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH enroscar
Nearest frequency peer: enroscar (+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 “encéfalo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- distópico
distópico
37,201 corpus weight
- dorn
dorn
37,196 corpus weight
- encéfalo
encéfalo
37,180 corpus weight
- enroscar
enroscar
37,176 corpus weight
- estipular
estipular
37,160 corpus weight
- exteriormen…
exteriormente
37,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “encéfalo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “encéfalo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
encéfalo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,821 among 1,279 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encéfalo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Além da encefalocele (uma hérnia que afeta parte do encéfalo), o feto tem outros sérios problemas de formação.
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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