lampreia
/lɐ̃.ˈpɾɐj.ɐ/
The verdict
“lampreia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,876 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,876
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome de duas espécies de peixes ciclóstomos, uma de água salgada e outra de água doce, de boca em forma de ventosa, considerado como um manjar, pelos seus apreciadores
Corpus desk
Index PT-lampreia · lampreia · Portuguese
lampreia · rank #74,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,876
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lapidação
Nearest frequency peer: lapidação (+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 “lampreia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- karo
karo
25,143 corpus weight
- lampreia
lampreia
25,125 corpus weight
- lapidação
lapidação
25,121 corpus weight
- lene
lene
25,116 corpus weight
- luxuriante
luxuriante
25,106 corpus weight
- magricela
magricela
25,102 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “lampreia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lampreia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɐ̃.ˈpɾɐj.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lampreia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lampreia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,876 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /lɐ̃.ˈpɾɐj.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nome de duas espécies de peixes ciclóstomos, uma de água salgada e outra de água doce, de boca em forma de ventosa, considerado como um manjar, pelos seus apreciadores".
No misspelling variants are generated for lampreia in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is lampreia, spelled L-A-M-P-R-E-I-A.
Definition
- 1nome de duas espécies de peixes ciclóstomos, uma de água salgada e outra de água doce, de boca em forma de ventosa, considerado como um manjar, pelos seus apreciadores
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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