sinete
The verdict
“sinete” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #91,430 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,430
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequeno objeto de metal com uma assinatura (normalmente do proprietário), brasão ou outro símbolo usado para imprimir tal símbolo em cera, usada para selar cartas e autenticar documentos
Corpus desk
Index PT-sinete · sinete · Portuguese
sinete · rank #91,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,430
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH solitude
Nearest frequency peer: solitude (+8 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 “sinete”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sazonalmente
sazonalmente
8,595 corpus weight
- seringal
seringal
8,583 corpus weight
- sinete
sinete
8,571 corpus weight
- solitude
solitude
8,563 corpus weight
- stacks
stacks
8,554 corpus weight
- subjetivame…
subjetivamente
8,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sinete” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sinete” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sinete is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #91,430 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sinete in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 sinete, spelled S-I-N-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1pequeno objeto de metal com uma assinatura (normalmente do proprietário), brasão ou outro símbolo usado para imprimir tal símbolo em cera, usada para selar cartas e autenticar documentos
- 2cera marcada com um sinete¹
- 3carimbo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sinete appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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