glicogênio
The verdict
“glicogênio” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,956 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,956
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - polissacarídeo que é a principal reserva energética nas células animais; é encontrado, principalmente, no fígado e nos músculos
Corpus desk
Index PT-glicogenio · glicogênio · Portuguese
glicogênio · rank #57,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,956
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH garrote
Nearest frequency peer: garrote (-6 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 “glicogênio”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- filologia
filologia
42,067 corpus weight
- fresta
fresta
42,057 corpus weight
- garrote
garrote
42,051 corpus weight
- glicogênio
glicogênio
42,045 corpus weight
- hug
hug
42,026 corpus weight
- importance
importance
42,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “glicogênio” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glicogênio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “glicogênio” em português
Rare enough to double-check
glicogênio is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,956 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "polissacarídeo que é a principal reserva energética nas células animais; é encontrado, principalmente, no fígado e nos músculos".
glicogênio has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is glicogênio, spelled G-L-I-C-O-G-Ê-N-I-O.
Definition
- 1polissacarídeo que é a principal reserva energética nas células animais; é encontrado, principalmente, no fígado e nos músculos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glicogênio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Agora acredita-se que as células musculares transformam glicose ou glicogênio em ácido lático.
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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