glicerina
/ɡli.sɨ.ˈɾi.nɐ/
The verdict
“glicerina” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,145 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,145
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - substância (C₃H₈O₃) obtida como subproduto da fabricação de sabão e ácidos graxos
Corpus desk
Index PT-glicerina · glicerina · Portuguese
glicerina · rank #56,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,145
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH fuego
Nearest frequency peer: fuego (-14 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 “glicerina”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fraterno
fraterno
43,875 corpus weight
- Frédéric
Frédéric
43,873 corpus weight
- fuego
fuego
43,870 corpus weight
- glicerina
glicerina
43,856 corpus weight
- hepático
hepático
43,840 corpus weight
- het
het
43,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “glicerina” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glicerina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡli.sɨ.ˈɾi.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “glicerina” em português
Rare enough to double-check
glicerina is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,145 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡli.sɨ.ˈɾi.nɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "substância (C₃H₈O₃) obtida como subproduto da fabricação de sabão e ácidos graxos".
glicerina doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is glicerina, spelled G-L-I-C-E-R-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1substância (C₃H₈O₃) obtida como subproduto da fabricação de sabão e ácidos graxos
Synonyms
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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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