periscópio
/pɨ.ɾiʃ.ˈkɔ.pju/
The verdict
“periscópio” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,450 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,450
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - acessório fundamental dos submarinos, usados para captar imagens acima da água
Corpus desk
Index PT-periscopio · periscópio · Portuguese
periscópio · rank #73,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,450
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH picão
Nearest frequency peer: picão (+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 “periscópio”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- parco
parco
26,562 corpus weight
- pars
pars
26,561 corpus weight
- pastoril
pastoril
26,559 corpus weight
- periscópio
periscópio
26,551 corpus weight
- picão
picão
26,545 corpus weight
- Pomerânia
Pomerânia
26,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “periscópio” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | periscópio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨ.ɾiʃ.ˈkɔ.pju/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “periscópio” em português
Rare enough to double-check
periscópio is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,450 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɨ.ɾiʃ.ˈkɔ.pju/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "acessório fundamental dos submarinos, usados para captar imagens acima da água".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for periscópio, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is periscópio, spelled P-E-R-I-S-C-Ó-P-I-O.
Definition
- 1acessório fundamental dos submarinos, usados para captar imagens acima da água
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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