Oiapoque
The verdict
“Oiapoque” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,682 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,682
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome do anel interno e mais denso do asteroide 10199 Cáriclo, um centauro com órbita entre os planetas Saturno e Urano, nomeado em homenagem ao rio Oiapoque no extremo norte brasileiro, com registr...
Corpus desk
Index PT-oiapoque · Oiapoque · Portuguese
Oiapoque · rank #58,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,682
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH orquestrar
Nearest frequency peer: orquestrar (+4 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 “Oiapoque”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- mácula
mácula
41,332 corpus weight
- necrópole
necrópole
41,327 corpus weight
- nomi
nomi
41,324 corpus weight
- Oiapoque
Oiapoque
41,319 corpus weight
- orquestrar
orquestrar
41,315 corpus weight
- oui
oui
41,311 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Oiapoque” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oiapoque |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Oiapoque” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Oiapoque is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,682 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nome do anel interno e mais denso do asteroide 10199 Cáriclo, um centauro com órbita entre os planetas Saturno e Urano, nomeado em homenagem ao rio Oiapoque no extremo norte brasileiro, com registr...".
Zero misspellings are on record for Oiapoque in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is Oiapoque, spelled O-I-A-P-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1nome do anel interno e mais denso do asteroide 10199 Cáriclo, um centauro com órbita entre os planetas Saturno e Urano, nomeado em homenagem ao rio Oiapoque no extremo norte brasileiro, com registro astronômico 2013C1R
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Oiapoque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Observações feitas sob a liderança de um cientista brasileiro desembocaram na inesperada descoberta de que o asteroide Chariklo é orbitado por dois anéis densos e estreitos - apelidados Oiapoque e Chuí. Esse é, de longe, o menor objeto celeste identificado com essa característica, sendo apenas o quinto no Sistema Solar a ser rodeado por anéis.
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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