piscadela
/piʃ.kɐ.ˈdɛ.lɐ/
The verdict
“piscadela” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,235 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,235
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de piscar
Corpus desk
Index PT-piscadela · piscadela · Portuguese
piscadela · rank #71,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,235
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pináculo
Nearest frequency peer: pináculo (-1 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 “piscadela”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- peixão
peixão
28,781 corpus weight
- permissivid…
permissividade
28,776 corpus weight
- petulância
petulância
28,771 corpus weight
- pináculo
pináculo
28,767 corpus weight
- piscadela
piscadela
28,766 corpus weight
- presunçoso
presunçoso
28,751 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “piscadela” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piscadela |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /piʃ.kɐ.ˈdɛ.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “piscadela” em português
Rare enough to double-check
piscadela is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,235 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /piʃ.kɐ.ˈdɛ.lɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for piscadela in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 piscadela, spelled P-I-S-C-A-D-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1ato de piscar
- 2sinal, que se faz piscando
Synonyms
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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