quaternário
/kwɐ.tɨɾ.ˈna.ɾju/
The verdict
“quaternário” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #74,255 among 129 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,255
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - composto de quatro unidades
Corpus desk
Index PT-quaternario · quaternário · Portuguese
quaternário · rank #74,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,255
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH quattro
Nearest frequency peer: quattro (+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 “quaternário”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pregunta
pregunta
25,762 corpus weight
- quaternário
quaternário
25,746 corpus weight
- quattro
quattro
25,745 corpus weight
- quibe
quibe
25,743 corpus weight
- ralador
ralador
25,737 corpus weight
- reclamante
reclamante
25,727 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “quaternário” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quaternário |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kwɐ.tɨɾ.ˈna.ɾju/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “quaternário” em português
Rare enough to double-check
quaternário is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #74,255 among 129 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kwɐ.tɨɾ.ˈna.ɾju/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quaternário, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is quaternário, spelled Q-U-A-T-E-R-N-Á-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1composto de quatro unidades
- 2que tem quatro faces, quatro elementos, etc
- 3que tem quatro tempos
- 4diz-se do período geológico, imediatamente posterior ao terciário
This word in other languages
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).