excellence
/'ɛksələns/
The verdict
“excellence” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,163 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,163
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - excelência
Corpus desk
Index PT-excellence · excellence · Portuguese
excellence · rank #52,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,163
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH expedido
Nearest frequency peer: expedido (+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 “excellence”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- esteticista
esteticista
47,846 corpus weight
- estratosfera
estratosfera
47,845 corpus weight
- excellence
excellence
47,838 corpus weight
- expedido
expedido
47,836 corpus weight
- fiambre
fiambre
47,825 corpus weight
- filosofar
filosofar
47,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “excellence” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excellence |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'ɛksələns/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “excellence” em português
Rare enough to double-check
excellence is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,163 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /'ɛksələns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "excelência".
excellence has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is excellence, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1excelência
Synonyms
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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