vasectomia
/vɐ.zɛk.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/
The verdict
“vasectomia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,692 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,692
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - excisão do vaso deferente ou de uma parte dele para induzir a esterilidade no homem
Corpus desk
Index PT-vasectomia · vasectomia · Portuguese
vasectomia · rank #60,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,692
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH vampirismo
Nearest frequency peer: vampirismo (-1 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 “vasectomia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- triênio
triênio
39,317 corpus weight
- tunisino
tunisino
39,316 corpus weight
- vampirismo
vampirismo
39,310 corpus weight
- vasectomia
vasectomia
39,309 corpus weight
- velocímetro
velocímetro
39,308 corpus weight
- whom
whom
39,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vasectomia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vasectomia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɐ.zɛk.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vasectomia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vasectomia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,692 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /vɐ.zɛk.tu.ˈmi.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "excisão do vaso deferente ou de uma parte dele para induzir a esterilidade no homem".
vasectomia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is vasectomia, spelled V-A-S-E-C-T-O-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1excisão do vaso deferente ou de uma parte dele para induzir a esterilidade no homem
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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