inguinal
The verdict
“inguinal” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,920 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,920
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - referente à virilha
Corpus desk
Index PT-inguinal · inguinal · Portuguese
inguinal · rank #83,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,920
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH indizível
Nearest frequency peer: indizível (-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 “inguinal”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- hipotecar
hipotecar
16,107 corpus weight
- incabível
incabível
16,093 corpus weight
- indetermina…
indeterminação
16,087 corpus weight
- indizível
indizível
16,085 corpus weight
- inguinal
inguinal
16,081 corpus weight
- ionizado
ionizado
16,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “inguinal” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inguinal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “inguinal” em português
Rare enough to double-check
inguinal is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,920 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "referente à virilha".
Zero misspellings are on record for inguinal in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is inguinal, spelled I-N-G-U-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1referente à virilha
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how inguinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A diretoria sabia do problema quando assinou com o jogador, que tem uma hérnia inguinal.
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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