neurocirurgião
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
- metódico
metódico
48,273 corpus weight
- mii
mii
48,268 corpus weight
- neurocirurg…
neurocirurgião
48,253 corpus weight
- ninfomaníaca
ninfomaníaca
48,251 corpus weight
- Oman
Oman
48,238 corpus weight
- oscilar
oscilar
48,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “neurocirurgião” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neurocirurgião |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #51,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “neurocirurgião” em português
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
- 1especialista em cirurgias da cabeça
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how neurocirurgião appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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