patience
/pasjɑ̃s/
The verdict
“patience” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,917 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,917
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - paciência
Corpus desk
Index PT-patience · patience · Portuguese
patience · rank #56,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,917
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH parelha
Nearest frequency peer: parelha (-6 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 “patience”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- palidez
palidez
43,096 corpus weight
- parelha
parelha
43,090 corpus weight
- patience
patience
43,084 corpus weight
- piá
piá
43,069 corpus weight
- planar
planar
43,068 corpus weight
- pleasant
pleasant
43,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “patience” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patience |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pasjɑ̃s/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “patience” em português
Rare enough to double-check
patience is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,917 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pasjɑ̃s/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "paciência".
No generated misspelling entries exist for patience in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is patience, spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1paciência
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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