pretensioso
/pɾɨ.tẽ.ˈsjo.zu/
The verdict
“pretensioso” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,509 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,509
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que tem pretensões, presunção ou vaidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-pretensioso · pretensioso · Portuguese
pretensioso · rank #53,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,509
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH primus
Nearest frequency peer: primus (+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 “pretensioso”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pilhar
pilhar
46,504 corpus weight
- polarizado
polarizado
46,503 corpus weight
- pretensioso
pretensioso
46,492 corpus weight
- primus
primus
46,491 corpus weight
- puppy
puppy
46,480 corpus weight
- rabisco
rabisco
46,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pretensioso” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pretensioso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pɾɨ.tẽ.ˈsjo.zu/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pretensioso” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pretensioso is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,509 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /pɾɨ.tẽ.ˈsjo.zu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pretensioso, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 pretensioso, spelled P-R-E-T-E-N-S-I-O-S-O.
Definition
- 1que tem pretensões, presunção ou vaidade
- 2orgulhoso
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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