alike
The verdict
“alike” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,882 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,882
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - muito semelhante
Corpus desk
Index PT-alike · alike · Portuguese
alike · rank #87,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,882
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH Alessio
Nearest frequency peer: Alessio (-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 “alike”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- adoçado
adoçado
12,140 corpus weight
- adquirente
adquirente
12,139 corpus weight
- agnosticismo
agnosticismo
12,132 corpus weight
- Alessio
Alessio
12,122 corpus weight
- alike
alike
12,119 corpus weight
- andrógeno
andrógeno
12,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “alike” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alike |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “alike” em português
Rare enough to double-check
alike is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,882 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "muito semelhante".
No generated misspelling entries exist for alike in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is alike, spelled A-L-I-K-E.
Definition
- 1muito semelhante
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alike appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
alike people (in behavior)
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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