lanterninha
The verdict
“lanterninha” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,665 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,665
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o último colocado num campeonato, classificação, etc
Corpus desk
Index PT-lanterninha · lanterninha · Portuguese
lanterninha · rank #75,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,665
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH laringite
Nearest frequency peer: laringite (+1 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 “lanterninha”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- lanterninha
lanterninha
24,336 corpus weight
- laringite
laringite
24,335 corpus weight
- lura
lura
24,317 corpus weight
- MAV
MAV
24,294 corpus weight
- micção
micção
24,278 corpus weight
- milito
milito
24,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “lanterninha” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanterninha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lanterninha” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lanterninha is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,665 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lanterninha, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is lanterninha, spelled L-A-N-T-E-R-N-I-N-H-A.
Definition
- 1o último colocado num campeonato, classificação, etc
- 2funcionário que no cinema encontra lugar para clientes que chegam atrasados, quando a sala já está escura, usando uma lanterna
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lanterninha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Exemplo disso foi que o Índice da Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (Ibovespa) ficou na lanterninha do ranking elaborado pelo Estado.
Saiu, viu um lanterninha, acenou. Será que ainda são chamados de 'vaga-lumes', como antigamente?
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).