spite
/spaɪt/
The verdict
“spite” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #96,237 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,237
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - despeito; desprezo; maldade; rancor
Corpus desk
Index PT-spite · spite · Portuguese
spite · rank #96,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,237
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH solha
Nearest frequency peer: solha (-6 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 “spite”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- senho
senho
3,802 corpus weight
- skincare
skincare
3,780 corpus weight
- solha
solha
3,770 corpus weight
- spite
spite
3,764 corpus weight
- superclássi…
superclássico
3,754 corpus weight
- treated
treated
3,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “spite” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spite |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /spaɪt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “spite” em português
Rare enough to double-check
spite is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #96,237 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /spaɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "despeito; desprezo; maldade; rancor".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for spite, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is spite, spelled S-P-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1despeito; desprezo; maldade; rancor
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They did it just for spite.
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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