esporádico
/iʃ.pu.ˈɾa.di.ku/
The verdict
“esporádico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,740 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,740
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - casual; aquilo que acontece de vez em quando
Corpus desk
Index PT-esporadico · esporádico · Portuguese
esporádico · rank #71,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,740
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esfoliante
Nearest frequency peer: esfoliante (-2 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 “esporádico”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- emanação
emanação
28,283 corpus weight
- engravatado
engravatado
28,272 corpus weight
- esfoliante
esfoliante
28,263 corpus weight
- esporádico
esporádico
28,261 corpus weight
- expensive
expensive
28,245 corpus weight
- fascículo
fascículo
28,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “esporádico” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esporádico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /iʃ.pu.ˈɾa.di.ku/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esporádico” em português
Rare enough to double-check
esporádico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,740 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /iʃ.pu.ˈɾa.di.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for esporádico in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 esporádico, spelled E-S-P-O-R-Á-D-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1casual; aquilo que acontece de vez em quando
- 2algo raro
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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