importunar
/ĩ.puɾ.tu.ˈnaɾ/
The verdict
“importunar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,342 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,342
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - causar importunação; enfadar, aborrecer, incomodar, irritar
Corpus desk
Index PT-importunar · importunar · Portuguese
importunar · rank #70,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,342
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH inabitável
Nearest frequency peer: inabitável (+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 “importunar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- histerectom…
histerectomia
29,679 corpus weight
- identicamen…
identicamente
29,665 corpus weight
- importunar
importunar
29,659 corpus weight
- inabitável
inabitável
29,656 corpus weight
- jequitibá
jequitibá
29,632 corpus weight
- Jérôme
Jérôme
29,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “importunar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | importunar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ĩ.puɾ.tu.ˈnaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “importunar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
importunar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,342 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ĩ.puɾ.tu.ˈnaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "causar importunação; enfadar, aborrecer, incomodar, irritar".
Zero misspellings are on record for importunar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 importunar, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-U-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1causar importunação; enfadar, aborrecer, incomodar, irritar
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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