fascinar
/fɐʃ.si.ˈnaɾ/
The verdict
“fascinar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,099 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,099
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dominar por encantamento
Corpus desk
Index PT-fascinar · fascinar · Portuguese
fascinar · rank #89,099 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,099
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH farkas
Nearest frequency peer: farkas (-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 “fascinar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- exacerbar
exacerbar
10,914 corpus weight
- farkas
farkas
10,904 corpus weight
- fascinar
fascinar
10,902 corpus weight
- fecundar
fecundar
10,898 corpus weight
- florete
florete
10,888 corpus weight
- fonológico
fonológico
10,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fascinar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fascinar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fɐʃ.si.ˈnaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fascinar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fascinar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,099 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fɐʃ.si.ˈnaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fascinar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is fascinar, spelled F-A-S-C-I-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1dominar por encantamento
- 2deslumbrar
Synonyms
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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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).