osmose
The verdict
“osmose” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,680 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,680
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fenômeno produzido quando dois líquidos, de desigual concentração, separados por paredes que possuem certa porosidade, a atravessam e se misturam
Corpus desk
Index PT-osmose · osmose · Portuguese
osmose · rank #50,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,680
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH outeiro
Nearest frequency peer: outeiro (+2 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 “osmose”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- oin
oin
49,327 corpus weight
- osmose
osmose
49,321 corpus weight
- outeiro
outeiro
49,319 corpus weight
- paleontolog…
paleontologia
49,315 corpus weight
- pasión
pasión
49,312 corpus weight
- passador
passador
49,311 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “osmose” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “osmose” em português
Rare enough to double-check
osmose is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,680 among 385 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how osmose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Como José Genoino se elegeu deputado federal, cargo que lhe dá direito a julgamento no foro privilegiado do Supremo, seus réus companheiros, como que por osmose, adquirem o mesmo privilégio - o que já é um atentado à lógica.
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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