perneta
The verdict
“perneta” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,153 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,153
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que tem um defeito na perna
Corpus desk
Index PT-perneta · perneta · Portuguese
perneta · rank #61,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,153
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH persuasivo
Nearest frequency peer: persuasivo (+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 “perneta”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pastelão
pastelão
38,857 corpus weight
- penitente
penitente
38,854 corpus weight
- perneta
perneta
38,848 corpus weight
- persuasivo
persuasivo
38,846 corpus weight
- pontada
pontada
38,840 corpus weight
- popó
popó
38,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “perneta” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perneta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “perneta” em português
Rare enough to double-check
perneta is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,153 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que tem um defeito na perna".
perneta has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is perneta, spelled P-E-R-N-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1que tem um defeito na perna
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perneta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
E o que faz nessa história um soldadinho perneta, apaixonado por uma bailarina de papel?
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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