lanceta
/lɐ̃.ˈse.tɐ/
The verdict
“lanceta” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrumento cirúrgico cortante
Corpus desk
Index PT-lanceta · lanceta · Portuguese
lanceta · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanceta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɐ̃.ˈse.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lanceta” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lanceta is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /lɐ̃.ˈse.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "instrumento cirúrgico cortante".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lanceta, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is lanceta, spelled L-A-N-C-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1instrumento cirúrgico cortante
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.