prevalente
The verdict
“prevalente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,182 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,182
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dominante, principal
Corpus desk
Index PT-prevalente · prevalente · Portuguese
prevalente · rank #55,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,182
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pária
Nearest frequency peer: pária (+7 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 “prevalente”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pombinhos
pombinhos
44,837 corpus weight
- postulado
postulado
44,831 corpus weight
- prevalente
prevalente
44,819 corpus weight
- pária
pária
44,812 corpus weight
- quel
quel
44,810 corpus weight
- reavivar
reavivar
44,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “prevalente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prevalente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “prevalente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
prevalente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,182 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dominante, principal".
No misspelling variants are generated for prevalente in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is prevalente, spelled P-R-E-V-A-L-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1dominante, principal
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prevalente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A tese prevalente é a de que saúde, educação, moradia segura e salubre, cultura e lazer são direitos inalienáveis de todos.
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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