protelar
/pɾu.tɨ.ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“protelar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,630 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,630
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deixar para depois a realização de (algo); adiar, retardar, postergar
Corpus desk
Index PT-protelar · protelar · Portuguese
protelar · rank #76,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,630
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH profundeza
Nearest frequency peer: profundeza (-3 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 “protelar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- plaqueta
plaqueta
23,388 corpus weight
- pluviosidade
pluviosidade
23,386 corpus weight
- primrose
primrose
23,376 corpus weight
- profundeza
profundeza
23,374 corpus weight
- protelar
protelar
23,371 corpus weight
- pujante
pujante
23,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “protelar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protelar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɾu.tɨ.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “protelar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
protelar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,630 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɾu.tɨ.ˈlaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "deixar para depois a realização de (algo); adiar, retardar, postergar".
No misspelling variants are generated for protelar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 protelar, spelled P-R-O-T-E-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1deixar para depois a realização de (algo); adiar, retardar, postergar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how protelar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Protelar uma decisão
Synonyms
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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