influir
/ĩ.ˈflwiɾ/
The verdict
“influir” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,569 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,569
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer fluir para dentro
Corpus desk
Index PT-influir · influir · Portuguese
influir · rank #65,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,569
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH inspetoria
Nearest frequency peer: inspetoria (+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 “influir”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- lacrar
lacrar
34,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “influir” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | influir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ĩ.ˈflwiɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “influir” em português
Rare enough to double-check
influir is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,569 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ĩ.ˈflwiɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
influir has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 influir, spelled I-N-F-L-U-I-R.
Definition
- 1fazer fluir para dentro
- 2insinuar; incutir
- 3estimular
- 4entusiasmar
- 5ter ação, autoridade moral ou predomínio
- 6dominar a vontade alheia
This word in other languages
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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