quickly
/ˈkwɪkli/
The verdict
“quickly” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,130 among 129 “Q” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,130
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rapidamente
Corpus desk
Index PT-quickly · quickly · Portuguese
quickly · rank #69,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,130
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH recontar
Nearest frequency peer: recontar (+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 “quickly”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- postular
postular
30,906 corpus weight
- pressentir
pressentir
30,894 corpus weight
- quickly
quickly
30,871 corpus weight
- recontar
recontar
30,865 corpus weight
- remendar
remendar
30,858 corpus weight
- reticente
reticente
30,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “quickly” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quickly |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈkwɪkli/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “quickly” em português
Rare enough to double-check
quickly is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,130 among 129 “Q” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /ˈkwɪkli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "rapidamente".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quickly, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is quickly, spelled Q-U-I-C-K-L-Y.
Definition
- 1rapidamente
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quickly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Luckily, the error was quickly corrected.
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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