esturjão
/iʃ.tuɾ.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“esturjão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,078 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,078
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tipo de peixe de pele, da família dos acipenserídeos, encontrado em águas muito frias do hemisfério norte; sua ova é bastante procurada para se preparar o caviar
Corpus desk
Index PT-esturjao · esturjão · Portuguese
esturjão · rank #89,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,078
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH estival
Nearest frequency peer: estival (-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 “esturjão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- escuela
escuela
10,942 corpus weight
- esfregado
esfregado
10,939 corpus weight
- espoir
espoir
10,934 corpus weight
- estival
estival
10,925 corpus weight
- esturjão
esturjão
10,923 corpus weight
- exacerbar
exacerbar
10,914 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “esturjão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esturjão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.tuɾ.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “esturjão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
esturjão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,078 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /iʃ.tuɾ.ˈʒɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tipo de peixe de pele, da família dos acipenserídeos, encontrado em águas muito frias do hemisfério norte; sua ova é bastante procurada para se preparar o caviar".
esturjão doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is esturjão, spelled E-S-T-U-R-J-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1tipo de peixe de pele, da família dos acipenserídeos, encontrado em águas muito frias do hemisfério norte; sua ova é bastante procurada para se preparar o caviar
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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