vacilante
/vɐ.si.ˈlɐ̃.tɨ/
The verdict
“vacilante” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,418 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,418
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pouco firme
Corpus desk
Index PT-vacilante · vacilante · Portuguese
vacilante · rank #71,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,418
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH ventilar
Nearest frequency peer: ventilar (+6 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 “vacilante”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tonal
tonal
28,608 corpus weight
- vacilante
vacilante
28,583 corpus weight
- ventilar
ventilar
28,577 corpus weight
- wafer
wafer
28,568 corpus weight
- walnut
walnut
28,567 corpus weight
- Zambia
Zambia
28,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vacilante” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacilante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /vɐ.si.ˈlɐ̃.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vacilante” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vacilante is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,418 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /vɐ.si.ˈlɐ̃.tɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vacilante, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is vacilante, spelled V-A-C-I-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1pouco firme
- 2instável
- 3trêmulo
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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