escorregão
/iʃ.ku.Rɨ.ˈɡɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“escorregão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,771 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,771
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de escorregar
Corpus desk
Index PT-escorregao · escorregão · Portuguese
escorregão · rank #83,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,771
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH escora
Nearest frequency peer: escora (-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 “escorregão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- embaixatriz
embaixatriz
16,251 corpus weight
- entorpecer
entorpecer
16,239 corpus weight
- escora
escora
16,231 corpus weight
- escorregão
escorregão
16,230 corpus weight
- esguicho
esguicho
16,229 corpus weight
- estupefato
estupefato
16,213 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “escorregão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escorregão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.ku.Rɨ.ˈɡɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “escorregão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
escorregão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,771 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /iʃ.ku.Rɨ.ˈɡɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ato de escorregar".
escorregão has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is escorregão, spelled E-S-C-O-R-R-E-G-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato de escorregar
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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