sudden
/sʌdn/
The verdict
“sudden” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,508 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,508
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - repentino
Corpus desk
Index PT-sudden · sudden · Portuguese
sudden · rank #64,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,508
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH successful
Nearest frequency peer: successful (-1 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 “sudden”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- soluçar
soluçar
35,502 corpus weight
- solário
solário
35,501 corpus weight
- spend
spend
35,498 corpus weight
- successful
successful
35,494 corpus weight
- sudden
sudden
35,493 corpus weight
- Swahili
Swahili
35,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sudden” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sudden |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sʌdn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sudden” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sudden is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,508 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /sʌdn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "repentino".
sudden has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is sudden, spelled S-U-D-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1repentino
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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