sinapse
/ziˈnapsɨ/
The verdict
“sinapse” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,349 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,349
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ponto de contato entre duas células nervosas
Corpus desk
Index PT-sinapse · sinapse · Portuguese
sinapse · rank #71,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,349
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH scope
Nearest frequency peer: scope (-9 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 “sinapse”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- rizoma
rizoma
28,687 corpus weight
- saturar
saturar
28,667 corpus weight
- scope
scope
28,661 corpus weight
- sinapse
sinapse
28,652 corpus weight
- subterfúgio
subterfúgio
28,636 corpus weight
- sustenido
sustenido
28,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sinapse” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinapse |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ziˈnapsɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sinapse” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sinapse is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,349 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ziˈnapsɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sinapse in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 sinapse, spelled S-I-N-A-P-S-E.
Definition
- 1ponto de contato entre duas células nervosas
- 2união de cromossomos
This word in other languages
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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