solve
/sɒlv/
The verdict
“solve” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,083 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,083
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - resolver (um problema)
Corpus desk
Index PT-solve · solve · Portuguese
solve · rank #72,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,083
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sexting
Nearest frequency peer: sexting (-14 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 “solve”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- seme
seme
27,940 corpus weight
- sequencialm…
sequencialmente
27,938 corpus weight
- sexting
sexting
27,932 corpus weight
- solve
solve
27,918 corpus weight
- Syria
Syria
27,897 corpus weight
- terias
terias
27,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “solve” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solve |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sɒlv/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “solve” em português
Rare enough to double-check
solve is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,083 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /sɒlv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "resolver (um problema)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for solve in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 solve, spelled S-O-L-V-E.
Definition
- 1resolver (um problema)
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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