pleonasmo
/ple.o.ˈnaz.mʊ/
The verdict
“pleonasmo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,228 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,228
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - figura de linguagem ou vício dela caracterizado pelo uso proposital ou não de palavras e desnecessárias para expressar uma ideia já subentendida
Corpus desk
Index PT-pleonasmo · pleonasmo · Portuguese
pleonasmo · rank #74,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,228
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pregunta
Nearest frequency peer: pregunta (+11 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 “pleonasmo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- patela
patela
25,795 corpus weight
- pleonasmo
pleonasmo
25,773 corpus weight
- pregunta
pregunta
25,762 corpus weight
- quaternário
quaternário
25,746 corpus weight
- quattro
quattro
25,745 corpus weight
- quibe
quibe
25,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pleonasmo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleonasmo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ple.o.ˈnaz.mʊ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pleonasmo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pleonasmo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,228 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ple.o.ˈnaz.mʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pleonasmo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 pleonasmo, spelled P-L-E-O-N-A-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1figura de linguagem ou vício dela caracterizado pelo uso proposital ou não de palavras e desnecessárias para expressar uma ideia já subentendida
- 2expressão empregada de modo a causar um pleonasmo¹
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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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