sertã
/sɨɾ.ˈtɐ̃/
The verdict
“sertã” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,005 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,005
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - frigideira
Corpus desk
Index PT-serta · sertã · Portuguese
sertã · rank #57,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,005
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sette
Nearest frequency peer: sette (+2 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 “sertã”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sejais
sejais
43,002 corpus weight
- sertã
sertã
42,996 corpus weight
- sette
sette
42,994 corpus weight
- sonambulismo
sonambulismo
42,984 corpus weight
- spitz
spitz
42,980 corpus weight
- subalterno
subalterno
42,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sertã” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sertã |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɨɾ.ˈtɐ̃/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sertã” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sertã is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,005 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɨɾ.ˈtɐ̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "frigideira".
sertã has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 sertã, spelled S-E-R-T-Ã.
Definition
- 1frigideira
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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