sublimar
/su.bli.ˈmaɾ/
The verdict
“sublimar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #99,257 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,257
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exaltar
Corpus desk
Index PT-sublimar · sublimar · Portuguese
sublimar · rank #99,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,257
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sinonímia
Nearest frequency peer: sinonímia (-30 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 “sublimar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Scylla
Scylla
797 corpus weight
- sinonímia
sinonímia
774 corpus weight
- sublimar
sublimar
744 corpus weight
- temeridade
temeridade
708 corpus weight
- tramoia
tramoia
696 corpus weight
- transitado
transitado
693 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sublimar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sublimar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /su.bli.ˈmaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sublimar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sublimar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #99,257 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /su.bli.ˈmaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
sublimar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 sublimar, spelled S-U-B-L-I-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1exaltar
- 2engrandecer
- 3tornar sublime
- 4purificar
This word in other languages
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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