preexistente
The verdict
“preexistente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,037 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,037
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que existe antes de alguma outra coisa
Corpus desk
Index PT-preexistente · preexistente · Portuguese
preexistente · rank #65,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,037
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH probatório
Nearest frequency peer: probatório (+3 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 “preexistente”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- papaia
papaia
35,000 corpus weight
- pineapple
pineapple
34,978 corpus weight
- preexistente
preexistente
34,964 corpus weight
- probatório
probatório
34,961 corpus weight
- promulgar
promulgar
34,956 corpus weight
- receive
receive
34,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “preexistente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preexistente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #65,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “preexistente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
preexistente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,037 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que existe antes de alguma outra coisa".
preexistente has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is preexistente, spelled P-R-E-E-X-I-S-T-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que existe antes de alguma outra coisa
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how preexistente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Menard dedicou seus escrúpulos e vigílias a repetir num idioma alheio um livro preexistente.
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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