prurido
/pɾu.ˈɾi.du/
The verdict
“prurido” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,737 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,737
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - irritação aguda e ardente na pele
Corpus desk
Index PT-prurido · prurido · Portuguese
prurido · rank #58,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,737
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH publisher
Nearest frequency peer: publisher (+1 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 “prurido”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pimento
pimento
41,286 corpus weight
- prurido
prurido
41,264 corpus weight
- publisher
publisher
41,263 corpus weight
- rabiscar
rabiscar
41,257 corpus weight
- rasante
rasante
41,253 corpus weight
- reatividade
reatividade
41,249 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “prurido” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prurido |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾu.ˈɾi.du/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “prurido” em português
Rare enough to double-check
prurido is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,737 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɾu.ˈɾi.du/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for prurido in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 prurido, spelled P-R-U-R-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1irritação aguda e ardente na pele
- 2desejo veemente
- 3hesitação
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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