protuberância

noun

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The verdict

“protuberância” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #61,177 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#61,177
frequency rank, Portuguese
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - saliência; aquilo que ressalta de uma superfície

Key facts for protuberância
PropertyValue
Headwordprotuberância
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Frequency rank#61,177
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “protuberância” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). protuberância lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for protuberância is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #61,177 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "saliência; aquilo que ressalta de uma superfície".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for protuberância, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is protuberância, spelled P-R-O-T-U-B-E-R-Â-N-C-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    saliência; aquilo que ressalta de uma superfície

Synonyms

proeminência

This word in other languages

lump(English)protubérance(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "protuberância"?
"protuberância" is spelled P-R-O-T-U-B-E-R-Â-N-C-I-A.
What does "protuberância" mean?
As a noun, "protuberância" means: saliência; aquilo que ressalta de uma superfície
What language does "protuberância" come from?
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Using “protuberância”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-T-U-B-E-R-Â-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list