engineer
/ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪɹ/
The verdict
“engineer” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,789 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,789
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - engenheiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-engineer · engineer · Portuguese
engineer · rank #68,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,789
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH enlatado
Nearest frequency peer: enlatado (+1 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 “engineer”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- doge
doge
31,241 corpus weight
- either
either
31,224 corpus weight
- engineer
engineer
31,212 corpus weight
- enlatado
enlatado
31,211 corpus weight
- entristecer
entristecer
31,207 corpus weight
- enxaguar
enxaguar
31,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “engineer” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engineer |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪɹ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “engineer” em português
Rare enough to double-check
engineer is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,789 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "engenheiro".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for engineer, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is engineer, spelled E-N-G-I-N-E-E-R.
Definition
- 1engenheiro
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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