sesquicentenário
The verdict
“sesquicentenário” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comemoração do 150º aniversário
Corpus desk
Index PT-sesquicentenario · sesquicentenário · Portuguese
sesquicentenário · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sesquicentenário |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sesquicentenário” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sesquicentenário is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "comemoração do 150º aniversário".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sesquicentenário, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is sesquicentenário, spelled S-E-S-Q-U-I-C-E-N-T-E-N-Á-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1comemoração do 150º aniversário
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sesquicentenário appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Em 1972, o Brasil comemorou o sesquicentenário de sua independência.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.