expelido
The verdict
“expelido” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,167 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,167
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aquilo ou alguém que sofreu a ação de expelir, isto é, foi posto para fora.
Corpus desk
Index PT-expelido · expelido · Portuguese
expelido · rank #64,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,167
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH exortar
Nearest frequency peer: exortar (-1 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 “expelido”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- exortar
exortar
35,835 corpus weight
- expelido
expelido
35,834 corpus weight
- extensível
extensível
35,833 corpus weight
- feirão
feirão
35,827 corpus weight
- figa
figa
35,825 corpus weight
- folgar
folgar
35,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “expelido” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expelido |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “expelido” em português
Rare enough to double-check
expelido is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,167 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aquilo ou alguém que sofreu a ação de expelir, isto é, foi posto para fora.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for expelido, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is expelido, spelled E-X-P-E-L-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1Aquilo ou alguém que sofreu a ação de expelir, isto é, foi posto para fora.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how expelido appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quando se tira o voto ao povo, o povo é expelido do centro para a periferia da história, perde o pão e a liberdade, o protesto passa a ser agitação e a greve rotulada de subversão.
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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