percevejo
/pɨɾ.sɨ.ˈvɐj.ʒu/
The verdict
“percevejo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,689 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,689
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - inseto hemíptero parasita do homem
Corpus desk
Index PT-percevejo · percevejo · Portuguese
percevejo · rank #67,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,689
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pez
Nearest frequency peer: pez (+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 “percevejo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- patada
patada
32,320 corpus weight
- percevejo
percevejo
32,312 corpus weight
- pez
pez
32,310 corpus weight
- plank
plank
32,307 corpus weight
- plutónio
plutónio
32,306 corpus weight
- Polka
Polka
32,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “percevejo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percevejo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨɾ.sɨ.ˈvɐj.ʒu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “percevejo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
percevejo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,689 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɨɾ.sɨ.ˈvɐj.ʒu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for percevejo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 percevejo, spelled P-E-R-C-E-V-E-J-O.
Definition
- 1inseto hemíptero parasita do homem
- 2pequeno prego de cabeça chata
Synonyms
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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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