aren't
The verdict
“aren't” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #76,084 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a contraction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,084
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - contração de are not
Corpus desk
Index PT-aren-t · aren't · Portuguese
aren't · rank #76,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,084
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH apodrecimento
Nearest frequency peer: apodrecimento (-5 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 “aren't”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- announcement
announcement
23,929 corpus weight
- apodrecimen…
apodrecimento
23,922 corpus weight
- aren't
aren't
23,917 corpus weight
- ASCII
ASCII
23,910 corpus weight
- assintomáti…
assintomático
23,904 corpus weight
- atribulado
atribulado
23,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “aren't” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aren't |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “aren't” em português
Rare enough to double-check
aren't is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #76,084 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as acontraction. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "contração de are not".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aren't, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is aren't, spelled A-R-E-N-'-T.
Definition
- 1contração de are not
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aren't appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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