Lusitânia
/lu.zi.ˈtã.nja/
The verdict
“Lusitânia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,635 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,635
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - antiga província romana que ocupava a área aproximadamente centro e sul do atual Portugal (a sul do rio Douro), e oeste da Espanha, (Salamanca e Estremadura espanhola)
Corpus desk
Index PT-lusitania · Lusitânia · Portuguese
Lusitânia · rank #58,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,635
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH martelar
Nearest frequency peer: martelar (+11 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 “Lusitânia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- knee
knee
41,383 corpus weight
- Lusitânia
Lusitânia
41,366 corpus weight
- martelar
martelar
41,355 corpus weight
- metafórico
metafórico
41,345 corpus weight
- microproces…
microprocessador
41,342 corpus weight
- minority
minority
41,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Lusitânia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lusitânia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lu.zi.ˈtã.nja/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Lusitânia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Lusitânia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,635 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /lu.zi.ˈtã.nja/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Lusitânia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Lusitânia, spelled L-U-S-I-T-Â-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1antiga província romana que ocupava a área aproximadamente centro e sul do atual Portugal (a sul do rio Douro), e oeste da Espanha, (Salamanca e Estremadura espanhola)
- 2Portugal
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).