fermentar
/fɨɾ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“fermentar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,202 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,202
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - provocar fermentação em
Corpus desk
Index PT-fermentar · fermentar · Portuguese
fermentar · rank #66,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,202
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fema
Nearest frequency peer: fema (-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 “fermentar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fasquia
fasquia
33,806 corpus weight
- fema
fema
33,801 corpus weight
- fermentar
fermentar
33,799 corpus weight
- fornada
fornada
33,791 corpus weight
- fumegante
fumegante
33,785 corpus weight
- gazebo
gazebo
33,776 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fermentar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermentar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fɨɾ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fermentar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fermentar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,202 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fɨɾ.mẽ.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "provocar fermentação em".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fermentar in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 fermentar, spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1provocar fermentação em
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).