quinino
The verdict
“quinino” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #92,258 among 129 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,258
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alcaloide com funções antitérmicas e analgésicas usado para tratar malária
Corpus desk
Index PT-quinino · quinino · Portuguese
quinino · rank #92,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,258
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH propositura
Nearest frequency peer: propositura (-17 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 “quinino”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- petardo
petardo
7,791 corpus weight
- pitangas
pitangas
7,783 corpus weight
- plugar
plugar
7,781 corpus weight
- propositura
propositura
7,760 corpus weight
- quinino
quinino
7,743 corpus weight
- salida
salida
7,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “quinino” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quinino |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “quinino” em português
Rare enough to double-check
quinino is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #92,258 among 129 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alcaloide com funções antitérmicas e analgésicas usado para tratar malária".
Zero misspellings are on record for quinino in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 quinino, spelled Q-U-I-N-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1alcaloide com funções antitérmicas e analgésicas usado para tratar malária
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quinino appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tratava bem os seus trabalhadores, trabalhava de manhã à noite, tinha um frasco de quinino no quarto para dar de remédio ao povo.
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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