terciário

//tɨɾ.ˈsja.ɾju// adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#53,622

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

terciário is anPortugueseadj. It means: que está em terceiro lugar Pronounced /tɨɾ.ˈsja.ɾju/.

Key facts for terciário
PropertyValue
Headwordterciário
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/tɨɾ.ˈsja.ɾju/
Letters9
Frequency rank#53,622
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of terciário in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for terciário is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɨɾ.ˈsja.ɾju/. Corpus data places it at rank #53,622 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que está em terceiro lugar".

No misspelling variants are generated for terciário in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is terciário, spelled T-E-R-C-I-Á-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    que está em terceiro lugar

Frequency rank: #53,622 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "terciário"?
"terciário" is spelled T-E-R-C-I-Á-R-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is /tɨɾ.ˈsja.ɾju/.
What does "terciário" mean?
As an adj, "terciário" means: que está em terceiro lugar
How do you pronounce "terciário"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "terciário" is /tɨɾ.ˈsja.ɾju/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "terciário" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.