lúmen
The verdict
“lúmen” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,863 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,863
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unidade de fluxo luminoso
Corpus desk
Index PT-lumen · lúmen · Portuguese
lúmen · rank #84,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,863
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lustro
Nearest frequency peer: lustro (-2 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 “lúmen”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- javari
javari
15,174 corpus weight
- lustro
lustro
15,140 corpus weight
- lúmen
lúmen
15,138 corpus weight
- mercurial
mercurial
15,112 corpus weight
- mictório
mictório
15,106 corpus weight
- mies
mies
15,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “lúmen” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lúmen |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lúmen” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lúmen is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,863 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
lúmen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is lúmen, spelled L-Ú-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1unidade de fluxo luminoso
- 2cavidade no interior de um órgão, veia ou artéria
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lúmen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O simeticone promove a diminuição da dor e do desconforto causados pela pressão do excesso de gás dentro do lúmen (cavidade) do trato digestório.
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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