prevent
/pɹəˈvɛnt/
The verdict
“prevent” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,696 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,696
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - evitar
Corpus desk
Index PT-prevent · prevent · Portuguese
prevent · rank #72,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,696
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH predatório
Nearest frequency peer: predatório (-4 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 “prevent”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pointer
pointer
27,318 corpus weight
- polca
polca
27,317 corpus weight
- potranca
potranca
27,312 corpus weight
- predatório
predatório
27,309 corpus weight
- prevent
prevent
27,305 corpus weight
- rabanada
rabanada
27,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “prevent” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prevent |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɹəˈvɛnt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “prevent” em português
Rare enough to double-check
prevent is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,696 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɹəˈvɛnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "evitar".
Zero misspellings are on record for prevent in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is prevent, spelled P-R-E-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1evitar
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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