istmo
The verdict
“istmo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,325 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,325
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - trecho de terra que une dois continentes ou um continente a uma península
Corpus desk
Index PT-istmo · istmo · Portuguese
istmo · rank #88,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,325
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH kakao
Nearest frequency peer: kakao (+17 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 “istmo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- immediate
immediate
11,715 corpus weight
- incubar
incubar
11,707 corpus weight
- istmo
istmo
11,676 corpus weight
- kakao
kakao
11,659 corpus weight
- leporino
leporino
11,641 corpus weight
- majo
majo
11,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “istmo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | istmo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “istmo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
istmo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,325 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "trecho de terra que une dois continentes ou um continente a uma península".
istmo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is istmo, spelled I-S-T-M-O.
Definition
- 1trecho de terra que une dois continentes ou um continente a uma península
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how istmo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uma queda de rochas decorrente de terremotos posteriores teria preenchido o antigo canal marinho, criando um istmo.
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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