paleontologia
/pa.le.õ.to.loˈʒi.ɐ/
The verdict
“paleontologia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,686 among 3,113 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,686
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ciência natural que estuda a vida animal e vegetal do passado da Terra e seu desenvolvimento ao longo do tempo geológico, bem como os processos de integração da informação biológica no registo geol...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paleontologia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pa.le.õ.to.loˈʒi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #50,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paleontologia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
paleontologia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,686 among 3,113 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pa.le.õ.to.loˈʒi.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ciência natural que estuda a vida animal e vegetal do passado da Terra e seu desenvolvimento ao longo do tempo geológico, bem como os processos de integração da informação biológica no registo geol...".
paleontologia has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 paleontologia, spelled P-A-L-E-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-I-A.
Definition
- 1ciência natural que estuda a vida animal e vegetal do passado da Terra e seu desenvolvimento ao longo do tempo geológico, bem como os processos de integração da informação biológica no registo geológico, ou seja, os processos de formação dos fósseis
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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 “paleontologia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-A-L-E-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pa.le.õ.to.loˈʒi.ɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.