sovina
/su.ˈvi.nɐ/
The verdict
“sovina” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #92,350 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,350
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - avarento, mesquinho, pão-duro
Corpus desk
Index PT-sovina · sovina · Portuguese
sovina · rank #92,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,350
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH stash
Nearest frequency peer: stash (+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 “sovina”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- scientia
scientia
7,684 corpus weight
- servilismo
servilismo
7,674 corpus weight
- sineta
sineta
7,664 corpus weight
- sovina
sovina
7,651 corpus weight
- stash
stash
7,649 corpus weight
- tenant
tenant
7,622 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sovina” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sovina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /su.ˈvi.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sovina” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sovina is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #92,350 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /su.ˈvi.nɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "avarento, mesquinho, pão-duro".
No misspelling variants are generated for sovina in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 sovina, spelled S-O-V-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1avarento, mesquinho, pão-duro
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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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