perinatal
The verdict
“perinatal” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #77,419 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #77,419
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - referente ao periodo antes e depois do nascimento, especificamente desde as 22 semanas completas (154 dias) de gestação (tempo em que o peso do feto é de 500g) até ao 7º dia completo depois do nasc...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perinatal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perinatal” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for perinatal is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #77,419 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "referente ao periodo antes e depois do nascimento, especificamente desde as 22 semanas completas (154 dias) de gestação (tempo em que o peso do feto é de 500g) até ao 7º dia completo depois do nasc...".
perinatal has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is perinatal, spelled P-E-R-I-N-A-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1referente ao periodo antes e depois do nascimento, especificamente desde as 22 semanas completas (154 dias) de gestação (tempo em que o peso do feto é de 500g) até ao 7º dia completo depois do nascimento
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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Using “perinatal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-R-I-N-A-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.