aap
['ap]
The verdict
“aap” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #89,699 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,699
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - macaco
Corpus desk
Index PT-aap · aap · Portuguese
aap · rank #89,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,699
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH zangar
Nearest frequency peer: zangar (-10 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 “aap”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- vespeiro
vespeiro
10,342 corpus weight
- vidência
vidência
10,338 corpus weight
- zangar
zangar
10,312 corpus weight
- aap
aap
10,302 corpus weight
- afoito
afoito
10,284 corpus weight
- antirracista
antirracista
10,260 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aap” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aap |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ['ap] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aap” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aap is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #89,699 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ['ap]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "macaco".
aap has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 aap, spelled A-A-P.
Definition
- 1macaco
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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