promulgar
/pɾu.muɫ.ˈɡaɾ/
The verdict
“promulgar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,045 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,045
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ordenar oficialmente a publicação de uma lei
Corpus desk
Index PT-promulgar · promulgar · Portuguese
promulgar · rank #65,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,045
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH probatório
Nearest frequency peer: probatório (-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 “promulgar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pineapple
pineapple
34,978 corpus weight
- preexistente
preexistente
34,964 corpus weight
- probatório
probatório
34,961 corpus weight
- promulgar
promulgar
34,956 corpus weight
- receive
receive
34,933 corpus weight
- remanso
remanso
34,925 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “promulgar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promulgar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɾu.muɫ.ˈɡaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “promulgar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
promulgar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,045 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɾu.muɫ.ˈɡaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ordenar oficialmente a publicação de uma lei".
promulgar has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 promulgar, spelled P-R-O-M-U-L-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1ordenar oficialmente a publicação de uma lei
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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