akan
/ɐ.ˈkã/
The verdict
“akan” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #77,668 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,668
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo aos akans, etnia que habita a África Ocidental
Corpus desk
Index PT-akan · akan · Portuguese
akan · rank #77,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,668
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH Adolphe
Nearest frequency peer: Adolphe (-3 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 “akan”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- 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
- amanteigado
amanteigado
22,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “akan” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | akan |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ.ˈkã/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “akan” em português
Rare enough to double-check
akan is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #77,668 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɐ.ˈkã/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for akan, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is akan, spelled A-K-A-N.
Definition
- 1relativo aos akans, etnia que habita a África Ocidental
- 2relativo ao idioma akan
Synonyms
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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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