segment
/ˈsɛg.mənt/
The verdict
“segment” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,514 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,514
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fragmento
Corpus desk
Index PT-segment · segment · Portuguese
segment · rank #77,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,514
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH saite
Nearest frequency peer: saite (-7 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 “segment”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- remain
remain
22,516 corpus weight
- retirante
retirante
22,509 corpus weight
- retroativo
retroativo
22,507 corpus weight
- rodovalho
rodovalho
22,502 corpus weight
- saite
saite
22,494 corpus weight
- segment
segment
22,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “segment” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | segment |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛg.mənt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “segment” em português
Rare enough to double-check
segment is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,514 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɛg.mənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for segment, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is segment, spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Fragmento
- 2trecho de um texto.
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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