expelir
/ɐjʃ.pɨ.ˈliɾ/
The verdict
“expelir” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,552 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,552
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lançar fora
Corpus desk
Index PT-expelir · expelir · Portuguese
expelir · rank #55,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,552
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH extraconjugal
Nearest frequency peer: extraconjugal (+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 “expelir”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- esotérico
esotérico
44,469 corpus weight
- estrado
estrado
44,461 corpus weight
- expelir
expelir
44,449 corpus weight
- extraconjug…
extraconjugal
44,447 corpus weight
- fatiar
fatiar
44,442 corpus weight
- fruticultura
fruticultura
44,430 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “expelir” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expelir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐjʃ.pɨ.ˈliɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “expelir” em português
Rare enough to double-check
expelir is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,552 among 1,279 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɐjʃ.pɨ.ˈliɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for expelir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 expelir, spelled E-X-P-E-L-I-R.
Definition
- 1lançar fora
- 2expulsar, arremessar
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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