xerez
/ʃɨ.ˈɾeʃ/
The verdict
“xerez” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,291 among 27 “X” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,291
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 27
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - espécie de uva preta
Corpus desk
Index PT-xerez · xerez · Portuguese
xerez · rank #50,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,291
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 27
- PHOTO-FINISH vívido
Nearest frequency peer: vívido (-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 “xerez”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- veer
veer
49,723 corpus weight
- venerar
venerar
49,722 corpus weight
- versado
versado
49,720 corpus weight
- viscoso
viscoso
49,718 corpus weight
- vívido
vívido
49,716 corpus weight
- xerez
xerez
49,710 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “xerez” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xerez |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɨ.ˈɾeʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “xerez” em português
Rare enough to double-check
xerez is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,291 among 27 “X” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃɨ.ˈɾeʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for xerez in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 xerez, spelled X-E-R-E-Z.
Definition
- 1espécie de uva preta
- 2certo vinho típico da Andaluzia
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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