seletivamente

adv

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The verdict

“seletivamente” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,171 among 2,603 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,171
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,603
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - de modo seletivo

Key facts for seletivamente
PropertyValue
Headwordseletivamente
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdverb
Letters13
Frequency rank#63,171
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “seletivamente” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). seletivamente lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

seletivamente is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,171 among 2,603 “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

  1. 1
    de modo seletivo

This word in other languages

selectively(English)sélectivement(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "seletivamente"?
"seletivamente" is spelled S-E-L-E-T-I-V-A-M-E-N-T-E.
What does "seletivamente" mean?
As an adverb, "seletivamente" means: de modo seletivo
What language does "seletivamente" come from?
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Using “seletivamente”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-E-L-E-T-I-V-A-M-E-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list