hostilizar
/ɔʃ.ti.li.ˈzaɾ/
The verdict
“hostilizar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,396 among 409 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,396
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - causar dano a
Corpus desk
Index PT-hostilizar · hostilizar · Portuguese
hostilizar · rank #87,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,396
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH horizontalida…
Nearest frequency peer: horizontalidade (-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 “hostilizar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Herd
Herd
12,613 corpus weight
- hiperespaço
hiperespaço
12,610 corpus weight
- horizontali…
horizontalidade
12,606 corpus weight
- hostilizar
hostilizar
12,605 corpus weight
- iaque
iaque
12,599 corpus weight
- Iceland
Iceland
12,597 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “hostilizar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hostilizar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɔʃ.ti.li.ˈzaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “hostilizar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
hostilizar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,396 among 409 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɔʃ.ti.li.ˈzaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hostilizar in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is hostilizar, spelled H-O-S-T-I-L-I-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1causar dano a
- 2opor-se a
- 3guerrear
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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