paleontologia
/pa.le.õ.to.loˈʒi.ɐ/
The verdict
“paleontologia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,686 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,686
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index PT-paleontologia · paleontologia · Portuguese
paleontologia · rank #50,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,686
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pasión
Nearest frequency peer: pasión (+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 “paleontologia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- pati
pati
49,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “paleontologia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “paleontologia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
paleontologia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,686 among 1,578 “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
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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