ondular
/õ.du.ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“ondular” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,066 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,066
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - formar pequenas ondas
Corpus desk
Index PT-ondular · ondular · Portuguese
ondular · rank #94,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,066
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH operacionalme…
Nearest frequency peer: operacionalmente (+1 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 “ondular”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- numerar
numerar
5,947 corpus weight
- ondular
ondular
5,935 corpus weight
- operacional…
operacionalmente
5,934 corpus weight
- opulento
opulento
5,931 corpus weight
- ortogonal
ortogonal
5,927 corpus weight
- Palme
Palme
5,921 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ondular” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ondular |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /õ.du.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “ondular” em português
Rare enough to double-check
ondular is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,066 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /õ.du.ˈlaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for ondular in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ondular, spelled O-N-D-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1formar pequenas ondas
- 2dar o movimento da ondulação a
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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