aircraft
/ɛəkɹɑː̩ft/
The verdict
“aircraft” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,126 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,126
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aeronave, avião
Corpus desk
Index PT-aircraft · aircraft · Portuguese
aircraft · rank #86,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,126
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH aglutinar
Nearest frequency peer: aglutinar (-1 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 “aircraft”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ânfora
ânfora
13,903 corpus weight
- aglutinar
aglutinar
13,876 corpus weight
- aircraft
aircraft
13,875 corpus weight
- Alandroal
Alandroal
13,874 corpus weight
- almargem
almargem
13,870 corpus weight
- aludir
aludir
13,869 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aircraft” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aircraft |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɛəkɹɑː̩ft/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aircraft” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aircraft is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,126 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɛəkɹɑː̩ft/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for aircraft in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is aircraft, spelled A-I-R-C-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1aeronave, avião
- 2nave
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).