postiço
/puʃ.ˈti.su/
The verdict
“postiço” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,037 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,037
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - acrescentado a uma obra, que já estava concluida
Corpus desk
Index PT-postico · postiço · Portuguese
postiço · rank #75,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,037
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH preceder
Nearest frequency peer: preceder (+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 “postiço”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- plateau
plateau
24,977 corpus weight
- portada
portada
24,968 corpus weight
- postiço
postiço
24,964 corpus weight
- preceder
preceder
24,963 corpus weight
- primoroso
primoroso
24,957 corpus weight
- quadriculado
quadriculado
24,943 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “postiço” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postiço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /puʃ.ˈti.su/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “postiço” em português
Rare enough to double-check
postiço is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,037 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /puʃ.ˈti.su/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for postiço, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 postiço, spelled P-O-S-T-I-Ç-O.
Definition
- 1acrescentado a uma obra, que já estava concluida
- 2que se pode pôr ou tirar
- 3que não forma corpo inteiriço com aquilo a que se acrescenta ou de que faz parte
- 4colocado artificialmente no lugar de alguma coisa que era natural e que falta
- 5fingido
- 6que não é natural
- 7adotivo
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).