montepio
The verdict
“montepio” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,281 among 1,087 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,281
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instituição mutualista e financeira de capitais privados na qual cada membro tem o direito de, em caso de morte, deixar pensão pagável a alguém de sua escolha
Corpus desk
Index PT-montepio · montepio · Portuguese
montepio · rank #59,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,281
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH nepalês
Nearest frequency peer: nepalês (+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 “montepio”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- montepio
montepio
40,720 corpus weight
- nepalês
nepalês
40,709 corpus weight
- obscurantis…
obscurantismo
40,699 corpus weight
- opto
opto
40,693 corpus weight
- ordene
ordene
40,692 corpus weight
- Ovídio
Ovídio
40,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “montepio” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | montepio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “montepio” em português
Rare enough to double-check
montepio is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,281 among 1,087 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "instituição mutualista e financeira de capitais privados na qual cada membro tem o direito de, em caso de morte, deixar pensão pagável a alguém de sua escolha".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for montepio, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is montepio, spelled M-O-N-T-E-P-I-O.
Definition
- 1instituição mutualista e financeira de capitais privados na qual cada membro tem o direito de, em caso de morte, deixar pensão pagável a alguém de sua escolha
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how montepio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
É ver se o "Seu" Gustavo da padaria "Rosa de Ouro", me pode ceder duas estampilhas de seiscentos réis. Tenho que fazer um requerimento ao Tesouro, sobre coisas do meu montepio, com urgência, precisava muito.
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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