gradação
/ɡɾɐ.dɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“gradação” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,997 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,997
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aumento ou diminuição gradual
Corpus desk
Index PT-gradacao · gradação · Portuguese
gradação · rank #73,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,997
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gou
Nearest frequency peer: gou (-1 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 “gradação”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- fragmentar
fragmentar
26,023 corpus weight
- gou
gou
26,005 corpus weight
- gradação
gradação
26,004 corpus weight
- grafo
grafo
26,002 corpus weight
- grammar
grammar
26,001 corpus weight
- grémio
grémio
25,996 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “gradação” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gradação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɾɐ.dɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “gradação” em português
Rare enough to double-check
gradação is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,997 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɾɐ.dɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
gradação doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gradação, spelled G-R-A-D-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1aumento ou diminuição gradual
- 2passagem ou transição gradual
- 3progressão de ideias ascendente ou descendente
- 4mudança gradual de cor ou tonalidade
- 5figura de linguagem que consiste em uma sequência de ideias em ordem crescente ou decrescente (por exemplo, em É ruim, é péssimo, é horrível, é catastrófico!)
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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