jequitibá
/ʒeki.tʃiba/
The verdict
“jequitibá” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #70,369 among 196 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,369
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome de várias espécies de árvores brasileiras
Corpus desk
Index PT-jequitiba · jequitibá · Portuguese
jequitibá · rank #70,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,369
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH Jérôme
Nearest frequency peer: Jérôme (+2 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 “jequitibá”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- importunar
importunar
29,659 corpus weight
- inabitável
inabitável
29,656 corpus weight
- jequitibá
jequitibá
29,632 corpus weight
- Jérôme
Jérôme
29,630 corpus weight
- licitar
licitar
29,611 corpus weight
- lixívia
lixívia
29,607 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “jequitibá” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jequitibá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒeki.tʃiba/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “jequitibá” em português
Rare enough to double-check
jequitibá is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #70,369 among 196 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʒeki.tʃiba/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jequitibá, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is jequitibá, spelled J-E-Q-U-I-T-I-B-Á.
Definition
- 1nome de várias espécies de árvores brasileiras
- 2nome de uma espécie de líquen
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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