fortificar
/fuɾ.ti.fi.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“fortificar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,332 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,332
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dar força a
Corpus desk
Index PT-fortificar · fortificar · Portuguese
fortificar · rank #57,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,332
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH gaguejar
Nearest frequency peer: gaguejar (+8 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 “fortificar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- faringe
faringe
42,685 corpus weight
- feitor
feitor
42,683 corpus weight
- fiado
fiado
42,680 corpus weight
- fortificar
fortificar
42,669 corpus weight
- gaguejar
gaguejar
42,661 corpus weight
- galleria
galleria
42,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fortificar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fortificar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fuɾ.ti.fi.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “fortificar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
fortificar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,332 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fuɾ.ti.fi.ˈkaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fortificar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 fortificar, spelled F-O-R-T-I-F-I-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1dar força a
- 2robustecer
- 3guarnecer de fortes
This word in other languages
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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