pompom
/põ.ˈpõ/
The verdict
“pompom” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,752 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,752
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - enfeite feito com fios curtos amarrados em um centro em comum usado para enfeitar ou chamar a atenção
Corpus desk
Index PT-pompom · pompom · Portuguese
pompom · rank #63,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,752
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH profusamente
Nearest frequency peer: profusamente (+13 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 “pompom”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- OPI
OPI
36,276 corpus weight
- pavoroso
pavoroso
36,264 corpus weight
- pompom
pompom
36,249 corpus weight
- profusamente
profusamente
36,236 corpus weight
- proliferar
proliferar
36,235 corpus weight
- proverbial
proverbial
36,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pompom” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pompom |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /põ.ˈpõ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pompom” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pompom is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,752 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /põ.ˈpõ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "enfeite feito com fios curtos amarrados em um centro em comum usado para enfeitar ou chamar a atenção".
No misspelling variants are generated for pompom in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is pompom, spelled P-O-M-P-O-M.
Definition
- 1enfeite feito com fios curtos amarrados em um centro em comum usado para enfeitar ou chamar a atenção
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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