pretensamente
The verdict
“pretensamente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,138 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,138
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de modo pretenso
Corpus desk
Index PT-pretensamente · pretensamente · Portuguese
pretensamente · rank #58,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,138
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH privilegiar
Nearest frequency peer: privilegiar (+2 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 “pretensamente”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pontão
pontão
41,868 corpus weight
- predação
predação
41,866 corpus weight
- pretensamen…
pretensamente
41,863 corpus weight
- privilegiar
privilegiar
41,861 corpus weight
- pua
pua
41,851 corpus weight
- pur
pur
41,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pretensamente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pretensamente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #58,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pretensamente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pretensamente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,138 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "de modo pretenso".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pretensamente, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pretensamente, spelled P-R-E-T-E-N-S-A-M-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1de modo pretenso
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pretensamente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«A conferência abordou temas pretensamente científicos, embora sem provas concretas.»
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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