saltério
The verdict
“saltério” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,124 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,124
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrumento musical de cordas dedilhadas, semelhante à harpa ou à cítara, usado na Antiguidade e na Idade Média, especialmente em contextos religiosos
Corpus desk
Index PT-salterio · saltério · Portuguese
saltério · rank #98,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,124
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH reso
Nearest frequency peer: reso (-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 “saltério”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- quadruplicar
quadruplicar
1,925 corpus weight
- rado
rado
1,920 corpus weight
- regato
regato
1,907 corpus weight
- reso
reso
1,894 corpus weight
- saltério
saltério
1,877 corpus weight
- stiff
stiff
1,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “saltério” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saltério |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “saltério” em português
Rare enough to double-check
saltério is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,124 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for saltério in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is saltério, spelled S-A-L-T-É-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1instrumento musical de cordas dedilhadas, semelhante à harpa ou à cítara, usado na Antiguidade e na Idade Média, especialmente em contextos religiosos
- 2livro dos Salmos da Bíblia, reunindo 150 cânticos e poemas religiosos
- 3omaso
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saltério appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Davi tocava o saltério para acompanhar seus cânticos
O monge recitava diariamente o saltério em suas orações
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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