prosaico
/pɾu.ˈzaj.ku/
The verdict
“prosaico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,438 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,438
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à prosa
Corpus desk
Index PT-prosaico · prosaico · Portuguese
prosaico · rank #89,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,438
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH púrpuras
Nearest frequency peer: púrpuras (+9 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 “prosaico”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- parentalida…
parentalidade
10,613 corpus weight
- prosaico
prosaico
10,563 corpus weight
- púrpuras
púrpuras
10,554 corpus weight
- rastafári
rastafári
10,544 corpus weight
- recitado
recitado
10,539 corpus weight
- regressivo
regressivo
10,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “prosaico” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prosaico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pɾu.ˈzaj.ku/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “prosaico” em português
Rare enough to double-check
prosaico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,438 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /pɾu.ˈzaj.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
prosaico doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is prosaico, spelled P-R-O-S-A-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1relativo à prosa
- 2vulgar
- 3corriqueiro
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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