primrose
The verdict
“primrose” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,625 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,625
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - prímula; espécie de flor da família Primulaceae, principalmente as do gênero Primula
Corpus desk
Index PT-primrose · primrose · Portuguese
primrose · rank #76,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,625
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH profundeza
Nearest frequency peer: profundeza (+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 “primrose”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- plaqueta
plaqueta
23,388 corpus weight
- pluviosidade
pluviosidade
23,386 corpus weight
- primrose
primrose
23,376 corpus weight
- profundeza
profundeza
23,374 corpus weight
- protelar
protelar
23,371 corpus weight
- pujante
pujante
23,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “primrose” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primrose |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “primrose” em português
Rare enough to double-check
primrose is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,625 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for primrose in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 primrose, spelled P-R-I-M-R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1prímula; espécie de flor da família Primulaceae, principalmente as do gênero Primula
- 2a cor de algumas dessas flores, um amarelo claro
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).