seletivamente
The verdict
“seletivamente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,171 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,171
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de modo seletivo
Corpus desk
Index PT-seletivamente · seletivamente · Portuguese
seletivamente · rank #63,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,171
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sarda
Nearest frequency peer: sarda (-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 “seletivamente”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ressonar
ressonar
36,855 corpus weight
- retardamento
retardamento
36,853 corpus weight
- sarda
sarda
36,837 corpus weight
- seletivamen…
seletivamente
36,830 corpus weight
- slaves
slaves
36,821 corpus weight
- steak
steak
36,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “seletivamente” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seletivamente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #63,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “seletivamente” em português
Rare enough to double-check
seletivamente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,171 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "de modo seletivo".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for seletivamente, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 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 seletivamente, spelled S-E-L-E-T-I-V-A-M-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1de modo seletivo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how seletivamente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«O herbicida atua seletivamente, eliminando as ervas daninhas sem prejudicar a plantação.»
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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