quarentão
kwa.rɛ̃.ˈtãw
The verdict
“quarentão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,169 among 129 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,169
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - homem na faixa etária entre os 40 e 49 anos
Corpus desk
Index PT-quarentao · quarentão · Portuguese
quarentão · rank #84,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,169
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH puritanismo
Nearest frequency peer: puritanismo (-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 “quarentão”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- proativo
proativo
15,847 corpus weight
- pup
pup
15,838 corpus weight
- purgar
purgar
15,836 corpus weight
- puritanismo
puritanismo
15,835 corpus weight
- quarentão
quarentão
15,832 corpus weight
- ralhar
ralhar
15,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “quarentão” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarentão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | kwa.rɛ̃.ˈtãw |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “quarentão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
quarentão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,169 among 129 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed kwa.rɛ̃.ˈtãw. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "homem na faixa etária entre os 40 e 49 anos".
No generated misspelling entries exist for quarentão in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is quarentão, spelled Q-U-A-R-E-N-T-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1homem na faixa etária entre os 40 e 49 anos
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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