indigente
/ĩ.di.ˈʒẽ.tɨ/
The verdict
“indigente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,809 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,809
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que vive na indigência
Corpus desk
Index PT-indigente · indigente · Portuguese
indigente · rank #52,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,809
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH indistintamen…
Nearest frequency peer: indistintamente (+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 “indigente”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ilusório
ilusório
47,203 corpus weight
- imobilização
imobilização
47,200 corpus weight
- indigente
indigente
47,192 corpus weight
- indistintam…
indistintamente
47,191 corpus weight
- intangível
intangível
47,182 corpus weight
- intellectual
intellectual
47,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “indigente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indigente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ĩ.di.ˈʒẽ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “indigente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
indigente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,809 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ĩ.di.ˈʒẽ.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que vive na indigência".
indigente has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is indigente, spelled I-N-D-I-G-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que vive na indigência
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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