occitano
/ok.si.ˈtã.nu/
The verdict
“occitano” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,913 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,913
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relacionado à região da Occitânia, ao sul da França
Corpus desk
Index PT-occitano · occitano · Portuguese
occitano · rank #52,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,913
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH nutriente
Nearest frequency peer: nutriente (-5 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 “occitano”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- nebuloso
nebuloso
47,100 corpus weight
- Nicaragua
Nicaragua
47,096 corpus weight
- nie
nie
47,095 corpus weight
- nutriente
nutriente
47,093 corpus weight
- occitano
occitano
47,088 corpus weight
- parlamentar…
parlamentarismo
47,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “occitano” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occitano |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ok.si.ˈtã.nu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “occitano” em português
Rare enough to double-check
occitano is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,913 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ok.si.ˈtã.nu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
occitano doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is occitano, spelled O-C-C-I-T-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1relacionado à região da Occitânia, ao sul da França
- 2relacionado aos habitantes desta região
- 3relacionado à língua occitana
Synonyms
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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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