slick

adj

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The verdict

“slick” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,348 among 2,603 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,348
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,603
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - de pista seca

Key facts for slick
PropertyValue
Headwordslick
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters5
Frequency rank#51,348
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “slick” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). slick lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

slick is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,348 among 2,603 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "de pista seca".

No misspelling variants are generated for slick in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 slick, spelled S-L-I-C-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    de pista seca

Antonyms

de chuva

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 "slick"?
"slick" is spelled S-L-I-C-K.
What does "slick" mean?
As an adjective, "slick" means: de pista seca
What language does "slick" come from?
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Using “slick”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-L-I-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list