sálvia
/ˈsaw.vja/
The verdict
“sálvia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,027 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,027
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - planta do gênero Salvia, que pertence à família das lamiáceas
Corpus desk
Index PT-salvia · sálvia · Portuguese
sálvia · rank #57,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,027
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH tacitamente
Nearest frequency peer: tacitamente (+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 “sálvia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- spitz
spitz
42,980 corpus weight
- subalterno
subalterno
42,978 corpus weight
- sálvia
sálvia
42,974 corpus weight
- tacitamente
tacitamente
42,973 corpus weight
- temperança
temperança
42,970 corpus weight
- tenhais
tenhais
42,968 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sálvia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sálvia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsaw.vja/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sálvia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sálvia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,027 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsaw.vja/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "planta do gênero Salvia, que pertence à família das lamiáceas".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sálvia, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is sálvia, spelled S-Á-L-V-I-A.
Definition
- 1planta do gênero Salvia, que pertence à família das lamiáceas
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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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