perceção
The verdict
“perceção” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,067 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,067
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de perceber
Corpus desk
Index PT-percecao · perceção · Portuguese
perceção · rank #69,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,067
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pensionista
Nearest frequency peer: pensionista (-2 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 “perceção”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- palpitação
palpitação
30,949 corpus weight
- parangolé
parangolé
30,947 corpus weight
- pavimentar
pavimentar
30,942 corpus weight
- penar
penar
30,939 corpus weight
- pensionista
pensionista
30,936 corpus weight
- perceção
perceção
30,934 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “perceção” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perceção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “perceção” em português
Rare enough to double-check
perceção is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,067 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ato de perceber".
perceção has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 perceção, spelled P-E-R-C-E-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato de perceber
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perceção appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«A perceção visual é a capacidade de interpretar o ambiente através da informação que chega aos olhos.»
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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