profetizar
/pɾu.fɨ.ti.ˈzaɾ/
The verdict
“profetizar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,813 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,813
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - anunciar ou predizer coisas futuras pelo dom da profecia
Corpus desk
Index PT-profetizar · profetizar · Portuguese
profetizar · rank #69,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,813
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH professar
Nearest frequency peer: professar (-1 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 “profetizar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- perambular
perambular
30,209 corpus weight
- polifonia
polifonia
30,199 corpus weight
- prestável
prestável
30,194 corpus weight
- professar
professar
30,189 corpus weight
- profetizar
profetizar
30,188 corpus weight
- rance
rance
30,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “profetizar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profetizar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɾu.fɨ.ti.ˈzaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “profetizar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
profetizar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,813 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɾu.fɨ.ti.ˈzaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
profetizar has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is profetizar, spelled P-R-O-F-E-T-I-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1anunciar ou predizer coisas futuras pelo dom da profecia
- 2prever ou anunciar o futuro
- 3vaticinar
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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