wilderness
/ˈwɪldənəs/, /-nɪs/
The verdict
“wilderness” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,361 among 110 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,361
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terra não cultivada e não colonizada; natureza selvagem
Corpus desk
Index PT-wilderness · wilderness · Portuguese
wilderness · rank #84,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,361
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH Wand
Nearest frequency peer: Wand (-2 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 “wilderness”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vocalização
vocalização
15,650 corpus weight
- vocativo
vocativo
15,648 corpus weight
- volumétrico
volumétrico
15,646 corpus weight
- Wand
Wand
15,642 corpus weight
- wilderness
wilderness
15,640 corpus weight
- Yak
Yak
15,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “wilderness” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wilderness |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪldənəs/, /-nɪs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “wilderness” em português
Rare enough to double-check
wilderness is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,361 among 110 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwɪldənəs/, /-nɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "terra não cultivada e não colonizada; natureza selvagem".
No misspelling variants are generated for wilderness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is wilderness, spelled W-I-L-D-E-R-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1terra não cultivada e não colonizada; natureza selvagem
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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