oscilante
/ɔʃ.si.ˈlɐ̃.tɨ/
The verdict
“oscilante” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,574 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,574
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que oscila
Corpus desk
Index PT-oscilante · oscilante · Portuguese
oscilante · rank #54,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,574
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH pacato
Nearest frequency peer: pacato (+3 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 “oscilante”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Núbia
Núbia
45,443 corpus weight
- núncio
núncio
45,442 corpus weight
- ordenança
ordenança
45,433 corpus weight
- ornitorrinco
ornitorrinco
45,431 corpus weight
- oscilante
oscilante
45,427 corpus weight
- pacato
pacato
45,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “oscilante” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oscilante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɔʃ.si.ˈlɐ̃.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “oscilante” em português
Rare enough to double-check
oscilante is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,574 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɔʃ.si.ˈlɐ̃.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que oscila".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for oscilante, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 oscilante, spelled O-S-C-I-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que oscila
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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