ensejo
/ẽ.ˈsɐj.ʒu/
The verdict
“ensejo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,448 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,448
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - oportunidade, lance, ocasião propícia ou adequada:
Corpus desk
Index PT-ensejo · ensejo · Portuguese
ensejo · rank #67,448 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,448
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH encabeçar
Nearest frequency peer: encabeçar (-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 “ensejo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- encabeçar
encabeçar
32,562 corpus weight
- ensejo
ensejo
32,553 corpus weight
- escrachado
escrachado
32,542 corpus weight
- esferográfi…
esferográfica
32,540 corpus weight
- espremedor
espremedor
32,538 corpus weight
- estarrecido
estarrecido
32,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ensejo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ensejo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ẽ.ˈsɐj.ʒu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ensejo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ensejo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,448 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ẽ.ˈsɐj.ʒu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "oportunidade, lance, ocasião propícia ou adequada:".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ensejo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ensejo, spelled E-N-S-E-J-O.
Definition
- 1oportunidade, lance, ocasião propícia ou adequada:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ensejo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deixou fugir o pássaro e o ensejo de disparar o primeiro tiro.
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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