endêmico
The verdict
“endêmico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,166 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,166
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - natural ou específico de um determinado povo ou lugar
Corpus desk
Index PT-endemico · endêmico · Portuguese
endêmico · rank #88,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,166
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH entusiástico
Nearest frequency peer: entusiástico (+9 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 “endêmico”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- endêmico
endêmico
11,835 corpus weight
- entusiástico
entusiástico
11,826 corpus weight
- envergar
envergar
11,824 corpus weight
- enviesado
enviesado
11,823 corpus weight
- escaldar
escaldar
11,817 corpus weight
- estalajadei…
estalajadeiro
11,811 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “endêmico” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endêmico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “endêmico” em português
Rare enough to double-check
endêmico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,166 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for endêmico in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is endêmico, spelled E-N-D-Ê-M-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1natural ou específico de um determinado povo ou lugar
- 2que pertence exclusivamente a um determinado lugar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how endêmico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pasolini o leva à esquerda, mas não a uma adesão que seria unilateral e acrítica a pretexto de combater o fascismo, segundo ele sempre endêmico no país.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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