geringonça
/ʒɨ.ɾĩ.ˈɡõ.sɐ/
The verdict
“geringonça” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,543 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,543
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - máquina, objeto, etc., que funciona mal ou está em estado precário
Corpus desk
Index PT-geringonca · geringonça · Portuguese
geringonça · rank #58,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,543
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gero
Nearest frequency peer: gero (+1 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 “geringonça”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fractal
fractal
41,481 corpus weight
- generalidad…
generalidades
41,464 corpus weight
- geringonça
geringonça
41,458 corpus weight
- gero
gero
41,457 corpus weight
- glorificação
glorificação
41,453 corpus weight
- grená
grená
41,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “geringonça” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geringonça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒɨ.ɾĩ.ˈɡõ.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “geringonça” em português
Rare enough to double-check
geringonça is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,543 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʒɨ.ɾĩ.ˈɡõ.sɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
geringonça doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is geringonça, spelled G-E-R-I-N-G-O-N-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1máquina, objeto, etc., que funciona mal ou está em estado precário
- 2solução governativa que resulta de um ou mais acordos parlamentares entre vários partidos políticos não vencedores das eleições (ex.: tentaram uma geringonça regional; será possível haver uma geringonça espanhola?). [designação informal dada ao XXI governo constitucional português, formado após as eleições legislativas de 2015]
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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