opúsculo
/oˈpus.ku.lu/
The verdict
“opúsculo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,372 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,372
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequena obra
Corpus desk
Index PT-opusculo · opúsculo · Portuguese
opúsculo · rank #89,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,372
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH ousadamente
Nearest frequency peer: ousadamente (+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 “opúsculo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- milionésimo
milionésimo
10,681 corpus weight
- opúsculo
opúsculo
10,629 corpus weight
- ousadamente
ousadamente
10,624 corpus weight
- parentalida…
parentalidade
10,613 corpus weight
- prosaico
prosaico
10,563 corpus weight
- púrpuras
púrpuras
10,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “opúsculo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opúsculo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /oˈpus.ku.lu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “opúsculo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
opúsculo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,372 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /oˈpus.ku.lu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pequena obra".
Zero misspellings are on record for opúsculo 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is opúsculo, spelled O-P-Ú-S-C-U-L-O.
Definition
- 1pequena obra
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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