letargia
/lɨ.tɐɾ.ˈʒi.ɐ/
The verdict
“letargia” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #56,815 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #56,815
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sonolência profunda e prolongada
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | letargia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɨ.tɐɾ.ˈʒi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “letargia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for letargia is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /lɨ.tɐɾ.ˈʒi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #56,815 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sonolência profunda e prolongada".
letargia has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is letargia, spelled L-E-T-A-R-G-I-A.
Definition
- 1sonolência profunda e prolongada
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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Using “letargia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-E-T-A-R-G-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /lɨ.tɐɾ.ˈʒi.ɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.