alguien
/ˈal.ɰjen/
The verdict
“alguien” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,873 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,873
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alguém:
Corpus desk
Index PT-alguien · alguien · Portuguese
alguien · rank #76,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,873
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH algemar
Nearest frequency peer: algemar (-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 “alguien”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- acurácia
acurácia
23,150 corpus weight
- afternoon
afternoon
23,140 corpus weight
- algemar
algemar
23,129 corpus weight
- alguien
alguien
23,128 corpus weight
- apre
apre
23,111 corpus weight
- apócrifo
apócrifo
23,107 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alguien” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alguien |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈal.ɰjen/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alguien” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alguien is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,873 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed /ˈal.ɰjen/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alguém:".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alguien, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is alguien, spelled A-L-G-U-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1alguém:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alguien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quizá podamos preguntar a alguien.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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