supérfluo
/su.ˈpɛɾ.flwu/
The verdict
“supérfluo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,884 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,884
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - demasiado
Corpus desk
Index PT-superfluo · supérfluo · Portuguese
supérfluo · rank #51,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,884
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sujidade
Nearest frequency peer: sujidade (-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 “supérfluo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- slavery
slavery
48,123 corpus weight
- subaquático
subaquático
48,121 corpus weight
- sujidade
sujidade
48,120 corpus weight
- supérfluo
supérfluo
48,117 corpus weight
- Switzerland
Switzerland
48,114 corpus weight
- taxonomia
taxonomia
48,111 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “supérfluo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | supérfluo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /su.ˈpɛɾ.flwu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “supérfluo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
supérfluo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,884 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /su.ˈpɛɾ.flwu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for supérfluo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is supérfluo, spelled S-U-P-É-R-F-L-U-O.
Definition
- 1demasiado
- 2desnecessário
- 3excessivo
- 4dispendioso
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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