apegão
/a.pe.'goŋ/ ou /a.pe.'hoŋ/
The verdict
“apegão” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bardana (Arctium lappa)
Corpus desk
Index PT-apegao · apegão · Portuguese
apegão · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apegão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /a.pe.'goŋ/ ou /a.pe.'hoŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “apegão” em português
Rare enough to double-check
apegão is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /a.pe.'goŋ/ ou /a.pe.'hoŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for apegão in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 apegão, spelled A-P-E-G-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1bardana (Arctium lappa)
- 2morango-do-mar (Actinia equina (L.))
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.