madrigal
/mɐ.dɾi.ˈɡaɫ/
The verdict
“madrigal” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,922 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,922
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - composição poética musicada surgida na Itália típica do século XVI
Corpus desk
Index PT-madrigal · madrigal · Portuguese
madrigal · rank #64,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,922
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH manauara
Nearest frequency peer: manauara (+3 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 “madrigal”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- lobotomia
lobotomia
35,085 corpus weight
- lubrificar
lubrificar
35,084 corpus weight
- madrigal
madrigal
35,079 corpus weight
- manauara
manauara
35,076 corpus weight
- maranata
maranata
35,072 corpus weight
- maremoto
maremoto
35,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “madrigal” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madrigal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.dɾi.ˈɡaɫ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “madrigal” em português
Rare enough to double-check
madrigal is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,922 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɐ.dɾi.ˈɡaɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "composição poética musicada surgida na Itália típica do século XVI".
No misspelling variants are generated for madrigal in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is madrigal, spelled M-A-D-R-I-G-A-L.
Definition
- 1composição poética musicada surgida na Itália típica do século XVI
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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