neurocirurgião

noun

The verdict

“neurocirurgião” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,748 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,748
frequency rank, Portuguese
360
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - especialista em cirurgias da cabeça

Corpus desk

Index PT-neurocirurgiao · neurocirurgião · Portuguese

neurocirurgião · rank #51,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,748
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 360
  • PHOTO-FINISH ninfomaníaca

Nearest frequency peer: ninfomaníaca (+2 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 “neurocirurgião”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “neurocirurgião” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for neurocirurgião
PropertyValue
Headwordneurocirurgião
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Frequency rank#51,748
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “neurocirurgião” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.neurocirurgiãocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “ninfomaníaca” (#51,750), “mii” (#51,733), “Oman” (#51,763). Entre 360 lemas com “N”, “neurocirurgião” fica em #51,748. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

neurocirurgião is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,748 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "especialista em cirurgias da cabeça".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for neurocirurgião, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 neurocirurgião, spelled N-E-U-R-O-C-I-R-U-R-G-I-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    especialista em cirurgias da cabeça

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how neurocirurgião appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Em Alagoas, na segunda-feira, toda a rede estadual de saúde contava com apenas um neurocirurgião e sete dos nove hematologistas do Estado se demitiram.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "neurocirurgião"?
"neurocirurgião" is spelled N-E-U-R-O-C-I-R-U-R-G-I-Ã-O.
What does "neurocirurgião" mean?
As a noun, "neurocirurgião" means: especialista em cirurgias da cabeça
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "neurocirurgião", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list