epítome
/e.ˈpi.to.mi/
The verdict
“epítome” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,917 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,917
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - resumo de um livro ou tratado científico
Corpus desk
Index PT-epitome · epítome · Portuguese
epítome · rank #77,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,917
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH Eris
Nearest frequency peer: Eris (+3 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 “epítome”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- enfaixado
enfaixado
22,092 corpus weight
- epítome
epítome
22,084 corpus weight
- Eris
Eris
22,081 corpus weight
- escaramuça
escaramuça
22,077 corpus weight
- estupefacto
estupefacto
22,063 corpus weight
- expressioni…
expressionista
22,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “epítome” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | epítome |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /e.ˈpi.to.mi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “epítome” em português
Rare enough to double-check
epítome is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,917 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /e.ˈpi.to.mi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for epítome, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 epítome, spelled E-P-Í-T-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1resumo de um livro ou tratado científico
- 2compêndio
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).