proverbial
/pʁɔ.vɛʁ.bjal/
The verdict
“proverbial” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,769 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,769
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - proverbial
Corpus desk
Index PT-proverbial · proverbial · Portuguese
proverbial · rank #63,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,769
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH proliferar
Nearest frequency peer: proliferar (-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 “proverbial”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pompom
pompom
36,249 corpus weight
- profusamente
profusamente
36,236 corpus weight
- proliferar
proliferar
36,235 corpus weight
- proverbial
proverbial
36,232 corpus weight
- quebradiço
quebradiço
36,222 corpus weight
- rag
rag
36,218 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “proverbial” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proverbial |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pʁɔ.vɛʁ.bjal/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “proverbial” em português
Rare enough to double-check
proverbial is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,769 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /pʁɔ.vɛʁ.bjal/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "proverbial".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for proverbial, 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is proverbial, spelled P-R-O-V-E-R-B-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1proverbial
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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