excecional
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
- espremedor
espremedor
32,538 corpus weight
- estarrecido
estarrecido
32,534 corpus weight
- excecional
excecional
32,527 corpus weight
- excited
excited
32,525 corpus weight
- experimenta…
experimentalismo
32,524 corpus weight
- fagulha
fagulha
32,517 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “excecional” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excecional |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “excecional” em português
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
- 1extraordinário
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excecional appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«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.
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