excecional

adj

The verdict

“excecional” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,474 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,474
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,279
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - extraordinário

Corpus desk

Index PT-excecional · excecional · Portuguese

excecional · rank #67,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,474
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,279
  • PHOTO-FINISH excited

Nearest frequency peer: excited (+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 “excecional”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “excecional” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for excecional
PropertyValue
Headwordexcecional
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Frequency rank#67,474
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “excecional” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).excecionalcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “excited” (#67,476), “experimentalismo” (#67,477), “estarrecido” (#67,467). Entre 1,279 lemas com “E”, “excecional” fica em #67,474. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

excecional is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,474 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "extraordinário".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for excecional, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 excecional, spelled E-X-C-E-C-I-O-N-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    extraordinário

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how excecional appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. «O desempenho da equipa na final do campeonato foi excecional, superando todas as expectativas.»

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "excecional"?
"excecional" is spelled E-X-C-E-C-I-O-N-A-L.
What does "excecional" mean?
As an adjective, "excecional" means: extraordinário
What language does "excecional" come from?
"excecional" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "excecional", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list