gather
The verdict
“gather” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,760 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,760
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - juntar, unir, coletar
Corpus desk
Index PT-gather · gather · Portuguese
gather · rank #97,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,760
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH genciana
Nearest frequency peer: genciana (+4 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 “gather”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- futurologia
futurologia
2,252 corpus weight
- galgar
galgar
2,247 corpus weight
- gamado
gamado
2,246 corpus weight
- gather
gather
2,241 corpus weight
- genciana
genciana
2,237 corpus weight
- ginja
ginja
2,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gather” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gather |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gather” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gather is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,760 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gather, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 gather, spelled G-A-T-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1juntar, unir, coletar
- 2juntar-se
- 3reunir em assembleia, congregar
- 4preguear
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gather appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They headed by foot to the incident site, gathering others along the way.
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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