insónia
/ĩ.ˈsɔ.njɐ/
The verdict
“insónia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,198 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,198
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ausência de sono;
Corpus desk
Index PT-insonia · insónia · Portuguese
insónia · rank #59,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,198
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH inocentemente
Nearest frequency peer: inocentemente (-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 “insónia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- inalar
inalar
40,817 corpus weight
- increase
increase
40,814 corpus weight
- inocentemen…
inocentemente
40,806 corpus weight
- insónia
insónia
40,803 corpus weight
- inóspito
inóspito
40,795 corpus weight
- isolation
isolation
40,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “insónia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insónia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ĩ.ˈsɔ.njɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “insónia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
insónia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,198 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ĩ.ˈsɔ.njɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for insónia, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is insónia, spelled I-N-S-Ó-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1ausência de sono;
- 2vigília
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).