slick

adj

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The verdict

“slick” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,348 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,348
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,185
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de pista seca

Corpus desk

Index PT-slick · slick · Portuguese

slick · rank #51,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,348
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,185
  • PHOTO-FINISH silenciador

Nearest frequency peer: silenciador (-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 “slick”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “slick” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for slick
PropertyValue
Headwordslick
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters5
Frequency rank#51,348
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “slick” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).slickcai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “silenciador” (#51,346), “subseqüente” (#51,356), “sapatão” (#51,336). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “slick” fica em #51,348. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

slick is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,348 among 1,185 “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
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "slick", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ébano#51,410pemba#51,252batel#51,464fifty#51,085

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list