palpitar
/paɫ.pi.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“palpitar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,695 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,695
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ter palpitações
Corpus desk
Index PT-palpitar · palpitar · Portuguese
palpitar · rank #58,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,695
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH oui
Nearest frequency peer: oui (-5 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 “palpitar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Oiapoque
Oiapoque
41,319 corpus weight
- orquestrar
orquestrar
41,315 corpus weight
- oui
oui
41,311 corpus weight
- palpitar
palpitar
41,306 corpus weight
- peitinho
peitinho
41,295 corpus weight
- piche
piche
41,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “palpitar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palpitar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /paɫ.pi.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “palpitar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
palpitar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,695 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /paɫ.pi.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
palpitar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is palpitar, spelled P-A-L-P-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1ter palpitações
- 2pulsar
- 3agitar-se
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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