nêmesis
The verdict
“nêmesis” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,364 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,364
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alguém que exige ou aplica retaliação
Corpus desk
Index PT-nemesis · nêmesis · Portuguese
nêmesis · rank #66,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,364
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH nuit
Nearest frequency peer: nuit (-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 “nêmesis”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- nippon
nippon
33,641 corpus weight
- nuit
nuit
33,638 corpus weight
- nêmesis
nêmesis
33,637 corpus weight
- pajem
pajem
33,621 corpus weight
- parafernália
parafernália
33,618 corpus weight
- penugem
penugem
33,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “nêmesis” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nêmesis |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “nêmesis” em português
Rare enough to double-check
nêmesis is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,364 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for nêmesis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 nêmesis, spelled N-Ê-M-E-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1alguém que exige ou aplica retaliação
- 2arquirrival ou adversário temível e geralmente vitorioso
- 3ato de retaliar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nêmesis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uma resposta óbvia seria o Google, que passou de queridinho da internet a nêmesis das empresas tradicionais de comunicação.
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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