moléstia
/moˈlɛs.t͡ʃi.ɐ/ [moˈlɛs.t͡ʃɪ.ɐ] AFI: /moˈlɛs.t͡ʃjɐ/ (pronúncia rápida)
The verdict
“moléstia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,892 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,892
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - incómodo físico ou moral
Corpus desk
Index PT-molestia · moléstia · Portuguese
moléstia · rank #59,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,892
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH Mongolia
Nearest frequency peer: Mongolia (+1 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 “moléstia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- matata
matata
40,133 corpus weight
- moléstia
moléstia
40,109 corpus weight
- Mongolia
Mongolia
40,108 corpus weight
- mosto
mosto
40,106 corpus weight
- murchar
murchar
40,104 corpus weight
- novelo
novelo
40,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “moléstia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moléstia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /moˈlɛs.t͡ʃi.ɐ/ [moˈlɛs.t͡ʃɪ.ɐ] AFI: /moˈlɛs.t͡ʃjɐ/ (pronúncia rápida) |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “moléstia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
moléstia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,892 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /moˈlɛs.t͡ʃi.ɐ/ [moˈlɛs.t͡ʃɪ.ɐ] AFI: /moˈlɛs.t͡ʃjɐ/ (pronúncia rápida). Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for moléstia, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 moléstia, spelled M-O-L-É-S-T-I-A.
Definition
- 1incómodo físico ou moral
- 2doença
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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