Vatican
/va.ti.kɑ̃/
The verdict
“Vatican” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #95,319 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,319
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaticano
Corpus desk
Index PT-vatican · Vatican · Portuguese
Vatican · rank #95,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,319
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH uomo
Nearest frequency peer: uomo (-8 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 “Vatican”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- traveller
traveller
4,708 corpus weight
- troop
troop
4,703 corpus weight
- tumbler
tumbler
4,698 corpus weight
- uomo
uomo
4,690 corpus weight
- Vatican
Vatican
4,682 corpus weight
- vika
vika
4,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Vatican” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vatican |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /va.ti.kɑ̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Vatican” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Vatican is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #95,319 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /va.ti.kɑ̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vaticano".
Vatican has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is Vatican, spelled V-A-T-I-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Vaticano
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).