usucapião
/ʊ.zʊ.kɐ.pɪ.ˈãw/, /ʊ.zʊ.kɐ.ˈpjãw/
The verdict
“usucapião” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,521 among 147 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,521
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - direito de adquirir a propriedade de um bem pelo seu uso continuado durante certo lapso de tempo:
Corpus desk
Index PT-usucapiao · usucapião · Portuguese
usucapião · rank #82,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,521
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH Valdemiro
Nearest frequency peer: Valdemiro (+2 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 “usucapião”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tycoon
tycoon
17,495 corpus weight
- tório
tório
17,492 corpus weight
- tórrido
tórrido
17,491 corpus weight
- usucapião
usucapião
17,480 corpus weight
- Valdemiro
Valdemiro
17,478 corpus weight
- varma
varma
17,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “usucapião” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usucapião |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʊ.zʊ.kɐ.pɪ.ˈãw/, /ʊ.zʊ.kɐ.ˈpjãw/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “usucapião” em português
Rare enough to double-check
usucapião is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,521 among 147 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʊ.zʊ.kɐ.pɪ.ˈãw/, /ʊ.zʊ.kɐ.ˈpjãw/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "direito de adquirir a propriedade de um bem pelo seu uso continuado durante certo lapso de tempo:".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for usucapião, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is usucapião, spelled U-S-U-C-A-P-I-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1direito de adquirir a propriedade de um bem pelo seu uso continuado durante certo lapso de tempo:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how usucapião appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Em julho do ano passado, a prefeitura decidiu criar um programa para regularizar os lotes dos moradores, por meio de ações de usucapião.
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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