Synapse
/zyˈnapsə/
The verdict
“Synapse” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #85,153 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,153
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sinapse
Corpus desk
Index PT-synapse · Synapse · Portuguese
Synapse · rank #85,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,153
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH tanger
Nearest frequency peer: tanger (+8 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 “Synapse”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Synapse
Synapse
14,848 corpus weight
- tanger
tanger
14,840 corpus weight
- tenro
tenro
14,834 corpus weight
- timbrado
timbrado
14,824 corpus weight
- tolerance
tolerance
14,820 corpus weight
- tortilha
tortilha
14,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Synapse” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Synapse |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /zyˈnapsə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Synapse” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Synapse is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #85,153 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /zyˈnapsə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sinapse".
Synapse has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Synapse, spelled S-Y-N-A-P-S-E.
Definition
- 1sinapse
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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