espetro
The verdict
“espetro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,679 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,679
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - faixa contínua de frequências
Corpus desk
Index PT-espetro · espetro · Portuguese
espetro · rank #97,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,679
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH epistolar
Nearest frequency peer: epistolar (-14 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 “espetro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- elisão
elisão
2,354 corpus weight
- embater
embater
2,353 corpus weight
- epistolar
epistolar
2,336 corpus weight
- espetro
espetro
2,322 corpus weight
- eximir
eximir
2,305 corpus weight
- ferroada
ferroada
2,287 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “espetro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espetro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “espetro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
espetro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,679 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "faixa contínua de frequências".
espetro has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is espetro, spelled E-S-P-E-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1faixa contínua de frequências
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espetro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«O telescópio analisou o espetro de radiação emitido pela estrela distante para determinar a sua composição química.»
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).