hortaliça
/ɔɾ.tɐ.ˈli.sɐ/
The verdict
“hortaliça” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #92,903 among 409 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,903
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome genérico dado às plantas comestíveis cultivadas em horta
Corpus desk
Index PT-hortalica · hortaliça · Portuguese
hortaliça · rank #92,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,903
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH Ignazio
Nearest frequency peer: Ignazio (+11 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 “hortaliça”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- glote
glote
7,133 corpus weight
- godo
godo
7,132 corpus weight
- haveremos
haveremos
7,111 corpus weight
- hortaliça
hortaliça
7,098 corpus weight
- Ignazio
Ignazio
7,087 corpus weight
- impossibili…
impossibilitar
7,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “hortaliça” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hortaliça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔɾ.tɐ.ˈli.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “hortaliça” em português
Rare enough to double-check
hortaliça is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #92,903 among 409 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɔɾ.tɐ.ˈli.sɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nome genérico dado às plantas comestíveis cultivadas em horta".
hortaliça doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 hortaliça, spelled H-O-R-T-A-L-I-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1nome genérico dado às plantas comestíveis cultivadas em horta
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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