espumar
/iʃ.pu.ˈmaɾ/
The verdict
“espumar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,458 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,458
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - produzir espuma
Corpus desk
Index PT-espumar · espumar · Portuguese
espumar · rank #72,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,458
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH esteroide
Nearest frequency peer: esteroide (+6 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 “espumar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- entourage
entourage
27,562 corpus weight
- enveredar
enveredar
27,557 corpus weight
- espumar
espumar
27,543 corpus weight
- esteroide
esteroide
27,537 corpus weight
- estupor
estupor
27,531 corpus weight
- evasivo
evasivo
27,527 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “espumar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espumar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /iʃ.pu.ˈmaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “espumar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
espumar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,458 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /iʃ.pu.ˈmaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
espumar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is espumar, spelled E-S-P-U-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1produzir espuma
- 2mostrar-se furioso, enraivecido, exaltado
- 3, babar-se, salivar muito
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espumar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Este leite espuma muito quando ferve.
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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