leitoso
/lɐj.ˈto.zu/
The verdict
“leitoso” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,070 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,070
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - referente ou que se parece com leite
Corpus desk
Index PT-leitoso · leitoso · Portuguese
leitoso · rank #55,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,070
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lamparina
Nearest frequency peer: lamparina (-5 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 “leitoso”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- irrevogável
irrevogável
44,953 corpus weight
- kite
kite
44,943 corpus weight
- kono
kono
44,940 corpus weight
- lamparina
lamparina
44,936 corpus weight
- leitoso
leitoso
44,931 corpus weight
- maresia
maresia
44,910 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “leitoso” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leitoso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /lɐj.ˈto.zu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “leitoso” em português
Rare enough to double-check
leitoso is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,070 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /lɐj.ˈto.zu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "referente ou que se parece com leite".
No misspelling variants are generated for leitoso in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is leitoso, spelled L-E-I-T-O-S-O.
Definition
- 1referente ou que se parece com leite
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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