lusitanas
The verdict
“lusitanas” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,632 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,632
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - feminino plural de lusitano
Corpus desk
Index PT-lusitanas · lusitanas · Portuguese
lusitanas · rank #86,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,632
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH madrugar
Nearest frequency peer: madrugar (+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 “lusitanas”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- lacraia
lacraia
13,399 corpus weight
- llama
llama
13,377 corpus weight
- lusitanas
lusitanas
13,369 corpus weight
- madrugar
madrugar
13,364 corpus weight
- Malachi
Malachi
13,363 corpus weight
- Meister
Meister
13,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “lusitanas” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lusitanas |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lusitanas” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lusitanas is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,632 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "feminino plural de lusitano".
lusitanas has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 lusitanas, spelled L-U-S-I-T-A-N-A-S.
Definition
- 1feminino plural de lusitano
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lusitanas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Às gentes Lusitanas, que esperassem;
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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