ponderado

adj

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The verdict

“ponderado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,941 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,941
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,578
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que ponderou

Corpus desk

Index PT-ponderado · ponderado · Portuguese

ponderado · rank #52,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,941
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,578
  • PHOTO-FINISH pomposo

Nearest frequency peer: pomposo (-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 “ponderado”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “ponderado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ponderado
PropertyValue
Headwordponderado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Frequency rank#52,941
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “ponderado” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.ponderadocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “pomposo” (#52,940), “picadeiro” (#52,934), “penoso” (#52,928). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “ponderado” fica em #52,941. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ponderado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,941 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ponderado, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ponderado, spelled P-O-N-D-E-R-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que ponderou
  2. 2
    que não se exalta com facilidade; calmo, equilibrado
  3. 3
    diz-se de pessoa que pensa e planeja bastante antes de agir
  4. 4
    que tem peso (que é multiplicado por um valor)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ponderado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. média ponderada

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ponderado"?
"ponderado" is spelled P-O-N-D-E-R-A-D-O.
What does "ponderado" mean?
As an adjective, "ponderado" means: que ponderou
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ponderado", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

picadeiro#52,934nutriente#52,908Nicaragua#52,905temerário#53,055

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list