osmose
The verdict
“osmose” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,680 among 846 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,680
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 846
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - fenômeno produzido quando dois líquidos, de desigual concentração, separados por paredes que possuem certa porosidade, a atravessam e se misturam
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | osmose |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “osmose” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
osmose is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,680 among 846 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fenômeno produzido quando dois líquidos, de desigual concentração, separados por paredes que possuem certa porosidade, a atravessam e se misturam".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for osmose, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is osmose, spelled O-S-M-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1fenômeno produzido quando dois líquidos, de desigual concentração, separados por paredes que possuem certa porosidade, a atravessam e se misturam
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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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Using “osmose”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is O-S-M-O-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.