hormona
/ɔɾ.ˈmo.nɐ/
The verdict
“hormona” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,022 among 409 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,022
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - substância química específica fabricada pelo sistema endócrino ou por neurónios altamente especializados
Corpus desk
Index PT-hormona · hormona · Portuguese
hormona · rank #55,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,022
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH hiperativo
Nearest frequency peer: hiperativo (-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 “hormona”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- heterogenei…
heterogeneidade
44,989 corpus weight
- hiperativo
hiperativo
44,983 corpus weight
- hormona
hormona
44,979 corpus weight
- húmus
húmus
44,975 corpus weight
- iemenitas
iemenitas
44,973 corpus weight
- impressioni…
impressionista
44,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “hormona” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hormona |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔɾ.ˈmo.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “hormona” em português
Rare enough to double-check
hormona is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,022 among 409 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɔɾ.ˈmo.nɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "substância química específica fabricada pelo sistema endócrino ou por neurónios altamente especializados".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hormona, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 hormona, spelled H-O-R-M-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1substância química específica fabricada pelo sistema endócrino ou por neurónios altamente especializados
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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