improve
The verdict
“improve” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,647 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,647
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - melhorar
Corpus desk
Index PT-improve · improve · Portuguese
improve · rank #69,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,647
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH improcedente
Nearest frequency peer: improcedente (-1 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 “improve”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- harmoniosam…
harmoniosamente
30,379 corpus weight
- hibridação
hibridação
30,371 corpus weight
- improcedente
improcedente
30,355 corpus weight
- improve
improve
30,354 corpus weight
- interditar
interditar
30,337 corpus weight
- Joane
Joane
30,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “improve” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | improve |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “improve” em português
Rare enough to double-check
improve is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,647 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "melhorar".
No generated misspelling entries exist for improve in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is improve, spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1melhorar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how improve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The second time, I was trying to improve my score on the sections that I thought I could. (A segunda vez, eu estava tentando melhorar minha pontuação nas seções que eu pensei que eu podia)
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).