idiossincrasia
/i.dʒi.o.sĩ.cɾa.ˈzi.a/
The verdict
“idiossincrasia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,031 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,031
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - reação individual própria e típica a cada pessoa
Corpus desk
Index PT-idiossincrasia · idiossincrasia · Portuguese
idiossincrasia · rank #74,031 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,031
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH imputação
Nearest frequency peer: imputação (+6 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 “idiossincrasia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- grafo
grafo
26,002 corpus weight
- grammar
grammar
26,001 corpus weight
- grémio
grémio
25,996 corpus weight
- heurística
heurística
25,980 corpus weight
- idiossincra…
idiossincrasia
25,970 corpus weight
- imputação
imputação
25,964 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “idiossincrasia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idiossincrasia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /i.dʒi.o.sĩ.cɾa.ˈzi.a/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #74,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “idiossincrasia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
idiossincrasia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,031 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /i.dʒi.o.sĩ.cɾa.ˈzi.a/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
idiossincrasia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is idiossincrasia, spelled I-D-I-O-S-S-I-N-C-R-A-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1reação individual própria e típica a cada pessoa
- 2temperamento peculiar de cada indivíduo
- 3disposição do temperamento de um indivíduo, em virtude da qual cada indivíduo representa de uma maneira que lhe é própria as influências dos diversos agentes que impressionam os seus órgãos
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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