indelicado
/ĩ.dɨ.li.ˈka.du/
The verdict
“indelicado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,565 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,565
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que não é delicado
Corpus desk
Index PT-indelicado · indelicado · Portuguese
indelicado · rank #65,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,565
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH influir
Nearest frequency peer: influir (+4 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 “indelicado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- grogue
grogue
34,469 corpus weight
- hedonismo
hedonismo
34,459 corpus weight
- humble
humble
34,451 corpus weight
- indelicado
indelicado
34,436 corpus weight
- influir
influir
34,432 corpus weight
- inspetoria
inspetoria
34,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “indelicado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indelicado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ĩ.dɨ.li.ˈka.du/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “indelicado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
indelicado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,565 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ĩ.dɨ.li.ˈka.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for indelicado, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is indelicado, spelled I-N-D-E-L-I-C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1que não é delicado
- 2grosseiro
- 3inconveniente
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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