sticky
AFI: /ˈstɪki/
The verdict
“sticky” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,548 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,548
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pegajoso
Corpus desk
Index PT-sticky · sticky · Portuguese
sticky · rank #77,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,548
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sucinto
Nearest frequency peer: sucinto (+9 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 “sticky”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- saite
saite
22,494 corpus weight
- segment
segment
22,487 corpus weight
- sticky
sticky
22,453 corpus weight
- sucinto
sucinto
22,444 corpus weight
- tinturaria
tinturaria
22,417 corpus weight
- transcorrer
transcorrer
22,406 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sticky” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sticky |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | AFI: /ˈstɪki/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sticky” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sticky is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,548 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed AFI: /ˈstɪki/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pegajoso".
sticky doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is sticky, spelled S-T-I-C-K-Y.
Definition
- 1pegajoso
Antonyms
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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