suffering
The verdict
“suffering” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,916 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,916
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sofrimento
Corpus desk
Index PT-suffering · suffering · Portuguese
suffering · rank #69,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,916
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH suplicar
Nearest frequency peer: suplicar (+3 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 “suffering”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- sistematizar
sistematizar
30,102 corpus weight
- sprout
sprout
30,092 corpus weight
- suffering
suffering
30,085 corpus weight
- suplicar
suplicar
30,082 corpus weight
- taki
taki
30,077 corpus weight
- teleconferê…
teleconferência
30,075 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “suffering” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suffering |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “suffering” em português
Rare enough to double-check
suffering is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,916 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sofrimento".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for suffering, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is suffering, spelled S-U-F-F-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1sofrimento
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how suffering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These walls are bricked with suffering.
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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