paternalismo
The verdict
“paternalismo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,566 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,566
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sistema de relações sociais e trabalhistas, unidos por um conjunto de valores, doutrinas políticas e normas fundadas na valorização positiva da pessoa do patriarca
Corpus desk
Index PT-paternalismo · paternalismo · Portuguese
paternalismo · rank #87,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,566
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH polidez
Nearest frequency peer: polidez (+27 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 “paternalismo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Mioto
Mioto
12,496 corpus weight
- paternalismo
paternalismo
12,435 corpus weight
- polidez
polidez
12,408 corpus weight
- Príamo
Príamo
12,381 corpus weight
- pugilismo
pugilismo
12,380 corpus weight
- realejo
realejo
12,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “paternalismo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paternalismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “paternalismo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
paternalismo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,566 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for paternalismo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is paternalismo, spelled P-A-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1sistema de relações sociais e trabalhistas, unidos por um conjunto de valores, doutrinas políticas e normas fundadas na valorização positiva da pessoa do patriarca
- 2modalidade de autoritarismo, na qual uma pessoa exerce o poder sobre outra combinando decisões arbitrárias e inquestionáveis, com elementos sentimentais e concessões graciosas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paternalismo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apesar da melhora nas condições de vida nas últimas décadas, muitos chineses estão insatisfeitos com os efeitos colaterais do crescimento e com o paternalismo do regime.
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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