recitação
The verdict
“recitação” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #62,424 among 963 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,424
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de recitar
Corpus desk
Index PT-recitacao · recitação · Portuguese
recitação · rank #62,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,424
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH reciprocamente
Nearest frequency peer: reciprocamente (-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 “recitação”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- profetizado
profetizado
37,604 corpus weight
- reap
reap
37,581 corpus weight
- reciprocame…
reciprocamente
37,578 corpus weight
- recitação
recitação
37,577 corpus weight
- redondamente
redondamente
37,573 corpus weight
- rococó
rococó
37,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “recitação” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recitação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “recitação” em português
Rare enough to double-check
recitação is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #62,424 among 963 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for recitação, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is recitação, spelled R-E-C-I-T-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de recitar
- 2declamação
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recitação appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recitação de uma fábula.
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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