microbiota
The verdict
“microbiota” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,736 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,736
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - flora e a fauna microscópicas de uma região
Corpus desk
Index PT-microbiota · microbiota · Portuguese
microbiota · rank #69,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,736
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mors
Nearest frequency peer: mors (+8 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 “microbiota”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- marão
marão
30,280 corpus weight
- meal
meal
30,276 corpus weight
- microbiota
microbiota
30,265 corpus weight
- mors
mors
30,257 corpus weight
- muvuca
muvuca
30,249 corpus weight
- naso
naso
30,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “microbiota” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | microbiota |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “microbiota” em português
Rare enough to double-check
microbiota is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,736 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "flora e a fauna microscópicas de uma região".
microbiota doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 microbiota, spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-I-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1flora e a fauna microscópicas de uma região
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how microbiota appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O tal “tiro pela culatra metabólico”, segundo os autores israelenses, ocorre porque os adoçantes alteram a composição da microbiota (ou flora) intestinal.
Synonyms
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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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