Achilles
/aˈkil.les/
The verdict
“Achilles” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,655 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,655
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aquiles
Corpus desk
Index PT-achilles · Achilles · Portuguese
Achilles · rank #77,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,655
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH acionador
Nearest frequency peer: acionador (+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 “Achilles”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- zangão
zangão
22,361 corpus weight
- Achilles
Achilles
22,346 corpus weight
- acionador
acionador
22,344 corpus weight
- Adolphe
Adolphe
22,336 corpus weight
- akan
akan
22,333 corpus weight
- Alexandro
Alexandro
22,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Achilles” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Achilles |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aˈkil.les/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Achilles” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Achilles is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,655 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /aˈkil.les/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aquiles".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Achilles, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Achilles, spelled A-C-H-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Aquiles
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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