pulverizar
The verdict
“pulverizar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,179 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,179
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - espalhar partículas minúsculas de um produto
Corpus desk
Index PT-pulverizar · pulverizar · Portuguese
pulverizar · rank #61,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,179
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH protuberância
Nearest frequency peer: protuberância (-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 “pulverizar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- Raíssa
Raíssa
38,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pulverizar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulverizar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pulverizar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pulverizar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,179 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pulverizar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is pulverizar, spelled P-U-L-V-E-R-I-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1espalhar partículas minúsculas de um produto
- 2destruir, desfazer, vencer
- 3desfazer-se ou destruir-se em milhares de pedacinhos
- 4espalhar por diversos pontos
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pulverizar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Eles não veem problema em pulverizar o laranjal a cada 15 dias contra o greening, por exemplo."
Ele cravou 19s19 para pulverizar o seu próprio recorde mundial e se consolidar como grande nome da competição.
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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