vulcânico
/vuɫ.ˈkɐ.ni.ku/
The verdict
“vulcânico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,462 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,462
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo a vulcão
Corpus desk
Index PT-vulcanico · vulcânico · Portuguese
vulcânico · rank #56,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,462
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH volúpia
Nearest frequency peer: volúpia (-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 “vulcânico”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Uchoa
Uchoa
43,559 corpus weight
- unicorn
unicorn
43,557 corpus weight
- Valdomiro
Valdomiro
43,553 corpus weight
- volúpia
volúpia
43,540 corpus weight
- vulcânico
vulcânico
43,539 corpus weight
- whenever
whenever
43,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vulcânico” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vulcânico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /vuɫ.ˈkɐ.ni.ku/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vulcânico” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vulcânico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,462 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /vuɫ.ˈkɐ.ni.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vulcânico doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is vulcânico, spelled V-U-L-C-Â-N-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1relativo a vulcão
- 2ardente; impetuoso
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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