xelim
/ʃɨ.ˈlĩ/
The verdict
“xelim” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,227 among 27 “X” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,227
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 27
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - moeda inglesa de prata que representava 1/20 da libra esterlina, até 1971
Corpus desk
Index PT-xelim · xelim · Portuguese
xelim · rank #75,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,227
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 27
- PHOTO-FINISH zar
Nearest frequency peer: zar (+9 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 “xelim”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vedar
vedar
24,800 corpus weight
- veneta
veneta
24,799 corpus weight
- xelim
xelim
24,774 corpus weight
- zar
zar
24,765 corpus weight
- aclamar
aclamar
24,750 corpus weight
- aimar
aimar
24,740 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “xelim” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xelim |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɨ.ˈlĩ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “xelim” em português
Rare enough to double-check
xelim is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,227 among 27 “X” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃɨ.ˈlĩ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "moeda inglesa de prata que representava 1/20 da libra esterlina, até 1971".
xelim has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is xelim, spelled X-E-L-I-M.
Definition
- 1moeda inglesa de prata que representava 1/20 da libra esterlina, até 1971
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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