receive
/ɹɪˈsiːv/
The verdict
“receive” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,068 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,068
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - receber; obter
Corpus desk
Index PT-receive · receive · Portuguese
receive · rank #65,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,068
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH remanso
Nearest frequency peer: remanso (+8 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 “receive”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- preexistente
preexistente
34,964 corpus weight
- probatório
probatório
34,961 corpus weight
- promulgar
promulgar
34,956 corpus weight
- receive
receive
34,933 corpus weight
- remanso
remanso
34,925 corpus weight
- rot
rot
34,905 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “receive” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | receive |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈsiːv/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “receive” em português
Rare enough to double-check
receive is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,068 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɹɪˈsiːv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "receber; obter".
receive has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is receive, spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1receber; obter
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).