senil
/ze.'niːl/
The verdict
“senil” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,663 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,663
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - senil
Corpus desk
Index PT-senil · senil · Portuguese
senil · rank #54,663 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,663
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH secretismo
Nearest frequency peer: secretismo (-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 “senil”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rosquinha
rosquinha
45,351 corpus weight
- sanguessuga
sanguessuga
45,347 corpus weight
- satoshi
satoshi
45,344 corpus weight
- secretismo
secretismo
45,339 corpus weight
- senil
senil
45,338 corpus weight
- soleira
soleira
45,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “senil” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | senil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ze.'niːl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “senil” em português
Rare enough to double-check
senil is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,663 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ze.'niːl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "senil".
senil doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is senil, spelled S-E-N-I-L.
Definition
- 1senil
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how senil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fagundes war schon etwas senil und begriff den Ernst der Lage nicht.
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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