universalista

adj

The verdict

“universalista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,865 among 147 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,865
frequency rank, Portuguese
147
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo ou adepto do universalismo

Corpus desk

Index PT-universalista · universalista · Portuguese

universalista · rank #80,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,865
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 147
  • PHOTO-FINISH vestibulando

Nearest frequency peer: vestibulando (+13 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 “universalista”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “universalista” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for universalista
PropertyValue
Headworduniversalista
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters13
Frequency rank#80,865
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “universalista” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).universalistacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “vestibulando” (#80,878), “topónimo” (#80,851), “toilette” (#80,847). Entre 147 lemas com “U”, “universalista” fica em #80,865. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

universalista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,865 among 147 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "relativo ou adepto do universalismo".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for universalista, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 universalista, spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S-A-L-I-S-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo ou adepto do universalismo

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how universalista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ele é um pensador universalista, defensor de princípios válidos para toda a humanidade.

Antonyms

relativista

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "universalista"?
"universalista" is spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S-A-L-I-S-T-A.
What does "universalista" mean?
As an adjective, "universalista" means: relativo ou adepto do universalismo
What language does "universalista" come from?
"universalista" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "universalista", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list