seringal

noun

The verdict

“seringal” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,418 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,418
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,185
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mata de seringueiras

Corpus desk

Index PT-seringal · seringal · Portuguese

seringal · rank #91,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,418
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,185
  • PHOTO-FINISH sazonalmente

Nearest frequency peer: sazonalmente (-12 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 “seringal”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “seringal” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for seringal
PropertyValue
Headwordseringal
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#91,418
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “seringal” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).seringalcai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “sazonalmente” (#91,406), “sinete” (#91,430), “solitude” (#91,438). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “seringal” fica em #91,418. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

seringal is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,418 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mata de seringueiras".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for seringal, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is seringal, spelled S-E-R-I-N-G-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    mata de seringueiras

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how seringal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tinha chegado a Rio Branco com 16 anos, em setembro de 1975 (Marina cresceu em uma palafita num seringal a 70 km da capital do Acre; perdeu a mãe aos 14 anos e duas irmãs aos 15, vítimas de sarampo e malária).

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 "seringal"?
"seringal" is spelled S-E-R-I-N-G-A-L.
What does "seringal" mean?
As a noun, "seringal" means: mata de seringueiras
What language does "seringal" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "seringal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list