profanar
The verdict
“profanar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,702 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,702
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - desrespeitar a santidade de algo
Corpus desk
Index PT-profanar · profanar · Portuguese
profanar · rank #80,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,702
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH porky
Nearest frequency peer: porky (-10 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 “profanar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- olivo
olivo
19,351 corpus weight
- panelada
panelada
19,342 corpus weight
- porky
porky
19,309 corpus weight
- profanar
profanar
19,299 corpus weight
- rechaçar
rechaçar
19,269 corpus weight
- reo
reo
19,251 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “profanar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profanar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “profanar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
profanar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,702 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "desrespeitar a santidade de algo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for profanar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct Portuguese form is profanar, spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1desrespeitar a santidade de algo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how profanar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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