idólatra
/i.ˈdɔ.lɐ.tɾɐ/
The verdict
“idólatra” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #90,132 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,132
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que adora os ídolos
Corpus desk
Index PT-idolatra · idólatra · Portuguese
idólatra · rank #90,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,132
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH illustration
Nearest frequency peer: illustration (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “idólatra”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- halterofili…
halterofilismo
9,891 corpus weight
- idólatra
idólatra
9,869 corpus weight
- illustration
illustration
9,866 corpus weight
- incinerar
incinerar
9,861 corpus weight
- insidioso
insidioso
9,853 corpus weight
- irrevogavel…
irrevogavelmente
9,845 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “idólatra” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idólatra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /i.ˈdɔ.lɐ.tɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “idólatra” em português
Rare enough to double-check
idólatra is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #90,132 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /i.ˈdɔ.lɐ.tɾɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for idólatra, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is idólatra, spelled I-D-Ó-L-A-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1que adora os ídolos
- 2relativo à idolatria
- 3que presta culto divino a criaturas
- 4apaixonado
Synonyms
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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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