profilaxia
/pɾɔ.fi.la.ˈksi.ɐ/
The verdict
“profilaxia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,378 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,378
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - uso de qualquer artifício para impedir a instalação ou propagação de doenças
Corpus desk
Index PT-profilaxia · profilaxia · Portuguese
profilaxia · rank #52,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,378
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH provimento
Nearest frequency peer: provimento (+5 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 “profilaxia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- perversidade
perversidade
47,642 corpus weight
- planificação
planificação
47,638 corpus weight
- profilaxia
profilaxia
47,623 corpus weight
- provimento
provimento
47,618 corpus weight
- quadribol
quadribol
47,611 corpus weight
- raimunda
raimunda
47,606 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “profilaxia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profilaxia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾɔ.fi.la.ˈksi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “profilaxia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
profilaxia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,378 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɾɔ.fi.la.ˈksi.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "uso de qualquer artifício para impedir a instalação ou propagação de doenças".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for profilaxia, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is profilaxia, spelled P-R-O-F-I-L-A-X-I-A.
Definition
- 1uso de qualquer artifício para impedir a instalação ou propagação de doenças
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how profilaxia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uma gravidez programada permite, além da escolha do melhor momento clinico, uma adequação dos antiretrovirais prescritos, considerando o esquema mais adequado para a paciente e para a profilaxia da transmissão vertical.
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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