vicious
/ˈvɪʃəs/
The verdict
“vicious” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,282 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,282
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - violento, destrutivo, cruel
Corpus desk
Index PT-vicious · vicious · Portuguese
vicious · rank #69,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,282
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH venerando
Nearest frequency peer: venerando (-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 “vicious”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ultramarino
ultramarino
30,736 corpus weight
- vambora
vambora
30,732 corpus weight
- varredor
varredor
30,728 corpus weight
- venerando
venerando
30,725 corpus weight
- vicious
vicious
30,719 corpus weight
- viticultura
viticultura
30,710 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vicious” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vicious |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈvɪʃəs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vicious” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vicious is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,282 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈvɪʃəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for vicious in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is vicious, spelled V-I-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1violento, destrutivo, cruel
- 2selvagem, agressivo
- 3relativo a algum dos vários crimes relacionados a (conforme a jurisdição) armas, prostituição, pornografia, alcoolismo, drogas, etc.
Synonyms
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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