airplane
The verdict
“airplane” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #63,953 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,953
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aeronáutico
Corpus desk
Index PT-airplane · airplane · Portuguese
airplane · rank #63,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,953
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH amaciar
Nearest frequency peer: amaciar (+8 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 “airplane”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- adoidado
adoidado
36,060 corpus weight
- adsorção
adsorção
36,057 corpus weight
- airplane
airplane
36,048 corpus weight
- amaciar
amaciar
36,040 corpus weight
- amarelar
amarelar
36,036 corpus weight
- amortecer
amortecer
36,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “airplane” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | airplane |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “airplane” em português
Rare enough to double-check
airplane is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #63,953 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aeronáutico".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for airplane, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 airplane, spelled A-I-R-P-L-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1aeronáutico
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how airplane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The airplane industry.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).