engendrar
/ẽ.ʒẽ.ˈdɾaɾ/
The verdict
“engendrar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #79,549 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,549
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer nascer, criar em si, dentro de si
Corpus desk
Index PT-engendrar · engendrar · Portuguese
engendrar · rank #79,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,549
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH eslavo
Nearest frequency peer: eslavo (+8 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 “engendrar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- dopar
dopar
20,471 corpus weight
- engendrar
engendrar
20,452 corpus weight
- eslavo
eslavo
20,444 corpus weight
- esperassem
esperassem
20,439 corpus weight
- evangelizad…
evangelizador
20,432 corpus weight
- ficada
ficada
20,421 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “engendrar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engendrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ẽ.ʒẽ.ˈdɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “engendrar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
engendrar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #79,549 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ẽ.ʒẽ.ˈdɾaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fazer nascer, criar em si, dentro de si".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for engendrar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is engendrar, spelled E-N-G-E-N-D-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer nascer, criar em si, dentro de si
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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