amu
/ˈa.mu/.
The verdict
“amu” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,956 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,956
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - imperativo do verbo ami
Corpus desk
Index PT-amu · amu · Portuguese
amu · rank #51,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,956
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH angina
Nearest frequency peer: angina (+4 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 “amu”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- absolutismo
absolutismo
48,066 corpus weight
- actually
actually
48,063 corpus weight
- amu
amu
48,045 corpus weight
- angina
angina
48,041 corpus weight
- apelativo
apelativo
48,038 corpus weight
- astigmatismo
astigmatismo
48,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “amu” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈa.mu/. |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “amu” em português
Rare enough to double-check
amu is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,956 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈa.mu/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "imperativo do verbo ami".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amu, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 amu, spelled A-M-U.
Definition
- 1imperativo do verbo ami
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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