primrose
The verdict
“primrose” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #76,625 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #76,625
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: prímula; espécie de flor da família Primulaceae, principalmente as do gênero Primula
| 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) |
Where “primrose” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for primrose is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #76,625 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for primrose in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is primrose, spelled P-R-I-M-R-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1prímula; espécie de flor da família Primulaceae, principalmente as do gênero Primula
- 2a cor de algumas dessas flores, um amarelo claro
Frequency rank: #76,625 in Portuguese
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Using “primrose”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-I-M-R-O-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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