entorse
/ẽ.ˈtɔɾ.sɨ/
The verdict
“entorse” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,139 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,139
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lesão articular, distensão dos ligamentos
Corpus desk
Index PT-entorse · entorse · Portuguese
entorse · rank #52,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,139
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH escultural
Nearest frequency peer: escultural (+5 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 “entorse”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- enfisema
enfisema
47,870 corpus weight
- entorse
entorse
47,862 corpus weight
- escultural
escultural
47,857 corpus weight
- espartilho
espartilho
47,855 corpus weight
- esteticista
esteticista
47,846 corpus weight
- estratosfera
estratosfera
47,845 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “entorse” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entorse |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ẽ.ˈtɔɾ.sɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “entorse” em português
Rare enough to double-check
entorse is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,139 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ẽ.ˈtɔɾ.sɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for entorse, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 entorse, spelled E-N-T-O-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1lesão articular, distensão dos ligamentos
- 2torcedura duma articulação
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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