icónico
The verdict
“icónico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,818 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,818
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - notável, simbólico
Corpus desk
Index PT-iconico · icónico · Portuguese
icónico · rank #97,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,818
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH impensado
Nearest frequency peer: impensado (+3 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “icónico”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- homologar
homologar
2,189 corpus weight
- hotelzinho
hotelzinho
2,188 corpus weight
- icónico
icónico
2,183 corpus weight
- impensado
impensado
2,180 corpus weight
- impertinênc…
impertinência
2,179 corpus weight
- indistinto
indistinto
2,166 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “icónico” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | icónico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “icónico” fica na frequência do português
Rare enough to double-check
icónico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,818 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "notável, simbólico".
No misspelling variants are generated for icónico in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is icónico, spelled I-C-Ó-N-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1notável, simbólico
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how icónico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«A cena em que o vilão revela a verdade ao herói tornou-se um dos momentos mais icónicos da história do cinema».
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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