nursery
The verdict
“nursery” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,413 among 360 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,413
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - berçário;
Corpus desk
Index PT-nursery · nursery · Portuguese
nursery · rank #73,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,413
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH oktober
Nearest frequency peer: oktober (+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 “nursery”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- modernamente
modernamente
26,616 corpus weight
- München
München
26,602 corpus weight
- nursery
nursery
26,588 corpus weight
- oktober
oktober
26,577 corpus weight
- parco
parco
26,562 corpus weight
- pars
pars
26,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “nursery” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nursery |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “nursery” em português
Rare enough to double-check
nursery is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,413 among 360 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for nursery in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 nursery, spelled N-U-R-S-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1berçário;
- 2fraldário.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nursery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Newborn infants stay in nurseries.
Crianças recém
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).