pacificar
/pɐ.si.fi.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“pacificar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,341 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,341
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pôr em paz
Corpus desk
Index PT-pacificar · pacificar · Portuguese
pacificar · rank #52,341 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,341
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH owl
Nearest frequency peer: owl (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pacificar”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- oboé
oboé
47,675 corpus weight
- olivera
olivera
47,666 corpus weight
- omitido
omitido
47,665 corpus weight
- owl
owl
47,661 corpus weight
- pacificar
pacificar
47,660 corpus weight
- pegajoso
pegajoso
47,649 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pacificar” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pacificar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɐ.si.fi.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “pacificar” fica na frequência do português
Rare enough to double-check
pacificar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,341 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɐ.si.fi.ˈkaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pacificar in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is pacificar, spelled P-A-C-I-F-I-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1pôr em paz
- 2apaziguar
- 3tranquilizar
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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