pueril
/pwɛ.ˈɾiɫ/
The verdict
“pueril” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #59,355 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,355
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - referente à criança
Corpus desk
Index PT-pueril · pueril · Portuguese
pueril · rank #59,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,355
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH radiologista
Nearest frequency peer: radiologista (+6 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 “pueril”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Piotr
Piotr
40,669 corpus weight
- pontiagudo
pontiagudo
40,661 corpus weight
- pueril
pueril
40,646 corpus weight
- radiologista
radiologista
40,640 corpus weight
- rafale
rafale
40,639 corpus weight
- rebolado
rebolado
40,633 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pueril” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pueril |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pwɛ.ˈɾiɫ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pueril” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pueril is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #59,355 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /pwɛ.ˈɾiɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "referente à criança".
pueril has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is pueril, spelled P-U-E-R-I-L.
Definition
- 1referente à criança
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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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