protuberância
The verdict
“protuberância” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,177 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,177
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - saliência; aquilo que ressalta de uma superfície
Corpus desk
Index PT-protuberancia · protuberância · Portuguese
protuberância · rank #61,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,177
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pulverizar
Nearest frequency peer: pulverizar (+2 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 “protuberância”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- popó
popó
38,837 corpus weight
- ppk
ppk
38,833 corpus weight
- praiano
praiano
38,832 corpus weight
- protuberânc…
protuberância
38,824 corpus weight
- pulverizar
pulverizar
38,822 corpus weight
- ralé
ralé
38,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “protuberância” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protuberância |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #61,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “protuberância” em português
Rare enough to double-check
protuberância is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,177 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
- 1saliência; aquilo que ressalta de uma superfície
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how protuberância appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pode-se, claro, descrever uma obra como When I am Pregnant: parede com uma protuberância semelhante à barriga de uma gestante.
Synonyms
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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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