thesis
/ˈθiː.sɪs/
The verdict
“thesis” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,762 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,762
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tese, afirmação suportada por argumentos:
Corpus desk
Index PT-thesis · thesis · Portuguese
thesis · rank #76,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,762
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH tetracampeona…
Nearest frequency peer: tetracampeonato (-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 “thesis”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- talude
talude
23,253 corpus weight
- teal
teal
23,249 corpus weight
- tetracampeo…
tetracampeonato
23,242 corpus weight
- thesis
thesis
23,239 corpus weight
- TRC
TRC
23,220 corpus weight
- troglodita
troglodita
23,217 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “thesis” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thesis |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈθiː.sɪs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “thesis” em português
Rare enough to double-check
thesis is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,762 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈθiː.sɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for thesis in our index, 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 thesis, spelled T-H-E-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1tese, afirmação suportada por argumentos:
- 2tese, trabalho apresentado para obtenção de grau acadêmico:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thesis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Immediately after the German invasion of the USSR during World War Two, Adolf Hitler put forward a thesis that the Red Army made extensive preparations for an offensive war in Europe, thus justifying the German invasion as a preemptive strike.
All his scientific life was linked with the Institute of Biology in Yekaterinburg where he defended his second thesis and became doctor of science in 1954.
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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