sedimento
/sɨ.di.ˈmẽ.tu/
The verdict
“sedimento” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,814 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,814
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - matérias depositadas
Corpus desk
Index PT-sedimento · sedimento · Portuguese
sedimento · rank #55,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,814
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH rotulagem
Nearest frequency peer: rotulagem (-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 “sedimento”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- revezar
revezar
44,205 corpus weight
- rosácea
rosácea
44,197 corpus weight
- rotulagem
rotulagem
44,195 corpus weight
- sedimento
sedimento
44,187 corpus weight
- soldar
soldar
44,174 corpus weight
- sujeição
sujeição
44,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sedimento” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sedimento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɨ.di.ˈmẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sedimento” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sedimento is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,814 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɨ.di.ˈmẽ.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sedimento has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 sedimento, spelled S-E-D-I-M-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1matérias depositadas
- 2fezes
This word in other languages
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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