germinar
/ʒɨɾ.mi.ˈnaɾ/
The verdict
“germinar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,883 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,883
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - começar um vegetal a desenvolver-se a partir de sua semente
Corpus desk
Index PT-germinar · germinar · Portuguese
germinar · rank #62,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH Grab
Nearest frequency peer: Grab (+3 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 “germinar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- germinar
germinar
37,118 corpus weight
- Grab
Grab
37,115 corpus weight
- Graf
Graf
37,113 corpus weight
- Grecia
Grecia
37,111 corpus weight
- guloseima
guloseima
37,108 corpus weight
- hermético
hermético
37,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “germinar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | germinar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʒɨɾ.mi.ˈnaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “germinar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
germinar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,883 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʒɨɾ.mi.ˈnaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for germinar 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 typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is germinar, spelled G-E-R-M-I-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1começar um vegetal a desenvolver-se a partir de sua semente
- 2brotar, crescer, desenvolver (uma ideia, por exemplo)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how germinar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Para fazer o teste, quatro lotes de 100 sementes cada são colocados para germinar no campo.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).