impingir
/ĩ.pĩ.ˈʒiɾ/
The verdict
“impingir” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,493 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,493
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aplicar com força ou violência; pespegar
Corpus desk
Index PT-impingir · impingir · Portuguese
impingir · rank #80,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,493
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH hoe
Nearest frequency peer: hoe (-15 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 “impingir”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- hoe
hoe
19,523 corpus weight
- impingir
impingir
19,508 corpus weight
- ininteligív…
ininteligível
19,492 corpus weight
- insinuante
insinuante
19,489 corpus weight
- Jacobo
Jacobo
19,478 corpus weight
- janvier
janvier
19,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “impingir” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impingir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ĩ.pĩ.ˈʒiɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “impingir” em português
Rare enough to double-check
impingir is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,493 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ĩ.pĩ.ˈʒiɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
impingir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is impingir, spelled I-M-P-I-N-G-I-R.
Definition
- 1aplicar com força ou violência; pespegar
- 2fazer acreditar em algo falso
- 3obrigar ou constranger alguém a ouvir, a comprar ou a aceitar
- 4vender por preço maior que o razoável
- 5fazer passar uma coisa em lugar de outra
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impingir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Impingiu-lhe uma pancada.
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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