hermético
/eɾ.ˈmɛ.ti.ku/
The verdict
“hermético” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,898 among 409 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,898
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - completamente fechado
Corpus desk
Index PT-hermetico · hermético · Portuguese
hermético · rank #62,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,898
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH guloseima
Nearest frequency peer: guloseima (-5 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 “hermético”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Grab
Grab
37,115 corpus weight
- Graf
Graf
37,113 corpus weight
- Grecia
Grecia
37,111 corpus weight
- guloseima
guloseima
37,108 corpus weight
- hermético
hermético
37,103 corpus weight
- ianque
ianque
37,092 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “hermético” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hermético |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /eɾ.ˈmɛ.ti.ku/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “hermético” em português
Rare enough to double-check
hermético is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,898 among 409 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /eɾ.ˈmɛ.ti.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hermético, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is hermético, spelled H-E-R-M-É-T-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1completamente fechado
- 2obscuro
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hermético appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O encontro dos 11 astronautas ocorreu duas horas depois do acoplamento, tempo que ambas as tripulações precisaram para conferir o estado hermético do engate entre a ISS e o Endeavour.
Millhauser pode ser, e geralmente é, cansativo, repetitivo, denso, exasperante, hermético, altamente literário.
Synonyms
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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