gânglio
/ˈɡɐ̃.ɡlju/
The verdict
“gânglio” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #81,323 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,323
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dilatação de vasos linfáticos
Corpus desk
Index PT-ganglio · gânglio · Portuguese
gânglio · rank #81,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,323
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH hier
Nearest frequency peer: hier (+17 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 “gânglio”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- gamela
gamela
18,704 corpus weight
- gandaia
gandaia
18,703 corpus weight
- gânglio
gânglio
18,678 corpus weight
- hier
hier
18,661 corpus weight
- iconoclasta
iconoclasta
18,651 corpus weight
- ideograma
ideograma
18,649 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gânglio” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gânglio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɐ̃.ɡlju/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gânglio” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gânglio is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #81,323 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɐ̃.ɡlju/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gânglio in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 gânglio, spelled G-Â-N-G-L-I-O.
Definition
- 1dilatação de vasos linfáticos
- 2nodo linfático, linfonodo
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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