gosma
/ˈgɔʒ.mɐ/
The verdict
“gosma” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,986 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,986
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - doença que provoca a formação de uma película na língua das aves; gogo
Corpus desk
Index PT-gosma · gosma · Portuguese
gosma · rank #60,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,986
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gravitação
Nearest frequency peer: gravitação (+4 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 “gosma”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fortuito
fortuito
39,030 corpus weight
- gosma
gosma
39,015 corpus weight
- gravitação
gravitação
39,011 corpus weight
- gusto
gusto
39,003 corpus weight
- heroicamente
heroicamente
38,998 corpus weight
- ies
ies
38,990 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gosma” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gosma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈgɔʒ.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gosma” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gosma is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,986 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈgɔʒ.mɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gosma, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 gosma, spelled G-O-S-M-A.
Definition
- 1doença que provoca a formação de uma película na língua das aves; gogo
- 2doença que provoca inflamação nas mucosas dos potros
- 3escarro
- 4material pegajoso
- 5esperma, sêmen
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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