quadrúpede
/kwɐ.ˈdɾu.pɨ.dɨ/
The verdict
“quadrúpede” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,793 among 129 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,793
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que possui quatro pés
Corpus desk
Index PT-quadrupede · quadrúpede · Portuguese
quadrúpede · rank #86,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,793
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH queixos
Nearest frequency peer: queixos (+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 “quadrúpede”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Polonia
Polonia
13,238 corpus weight
- preá
preá
13,223 corpus weight
- quadrúpede
quadrúpede
13,208 corpus weight
- queixos
queixos
13,207 corpus weight
- reaproveitar
reaproveitar
13,192 corpus weight
- recostar
recostar
13,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “quadrúpede” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadrúpede |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kwɐ.ˈdɾu.pɨ.dɨ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “quadrúpede” em português
Rare enough to double-check
quadrúpede is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,793 among 129 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kwɐ.ˈdɾu.pɨ.dɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que possui quatro pés".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quadrúpede, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is quadrúpede, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-Ú-P-E-D-E.
Definition
- 1que possui quatro pés
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quadrúpede appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os restos do dinossauro, quadrúpede e herbívoro, foram localizados em Níger (África).
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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