intense
/ɛ̃.tɑ̃s/
The verdict
“intense” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,827 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,827
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - intenso
Corpus desk
Index PT-intense · intense · Portuguese
intense · rank #74,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,827
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH inexoravelmen…
Nearest frequency peer: inexoravelmente (-7 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 “intense”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- hater
hater
25,207 corpus weight
- imigrar
imigrar
25,185 corpus weight
- incrustado
incrustado
25,183 corpus weight
- inexoravelm…
inexoravelmente
25,181 corpus weight
- intense
intense
25,174 corpus weight
- karo
karo
25,143 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “intense” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intense |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɛ̃.tɑ̃s/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “intense” em português
Rare enough to double-check
intense is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,827 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɛ̃.tɑ̃s/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "intenso".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for intense, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is intense, spelled I-N-T-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1intenso
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intense appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En dépit de sa réussite, l’Europe connaissait d’intenses frustrations. Cette réussite était pourtant éclatante. Les progrès scientifiques, technologiques et industriels y étaient impressionnants.
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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