glandular
/ɡlɐ̃.du.ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“glandular” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,797 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,797
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das glândulas
Corpus desk
Index PT-glandular · glandular · Portuguese
glandular · rank #71,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,797
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH frontão
Nearest frequency peer: frontão (-11 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 “glandular”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fishing
fishing
28,231 corpus weight
- fluoreto
fluoreto
28,225 corpus weight
- forrar
forrar
28,219 corpus weight
- frontão
frontão
28,215 corpus weight
- glandular
glandular
28,204 corpus weight
- hipotireoid…
hipotireoidismo
28,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “glandular” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glandular |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɡlɐ̃.du.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “glandular” em português
Rare enough to double-check
glandular is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,797 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɡlɐ̃.du.ˈlaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das glândulas".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glandular, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 glandular, spelled G-L-A-N-D-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1das glândulas
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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