glosa
/ˈɡlɔ.zɐ/
The verdict
“glosa” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,149 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,149
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nota explicativa, sobre as palavras ou sentido de um texto, e escrita de ordinário à margem
Corpus desk
Index PT-glosa · glosa · Portuguese
glosa · rank #89,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,149
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH geodésico
Nearest frequency peer: geodésico (-9 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 “glosa”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fonológico
fonológico
10,885 corpus weight
- geodésico
geodésico
10,861 corpus weight
- glosa
glosa
10,852 corpus weight
- haveríamos
haveríamos
10,831 corpus weight
- Hendrik
Hendrik
10,828 corpus weight
- hipocondria
hipocondria
10,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “glosa” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glosa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡlɔ.zɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “glosa” em português
Rare enough to double-check
glosa is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,149 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡlɔ.zɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glosa, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is glosa, spelled G-L-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1nota explicativa, sobre as palavras ou sentido de um texto, e escrita de ordinário à margem
- 2interpretação; comentário
- 3censura
- 4forma de poema utilizada pelos poetas do Nordeste do Brasil, principalmente os cantadores, em forma de uma ou mais décimas (estrofe de 10 versos) que respondem a um desafio, expresso em forma de mote
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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