awe
/ɔː/
The verdict
“awe” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,540 among 1,900 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,540
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sentimento de medo e reverência
Corpus desk
Index PT-awe · awe · Portuguese
awe · rank #83,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,540
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH atu
Nearest frequency peer: atu (-6 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 “awe”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- amostrar
amostrar
16,498 corpus weight
- atu
atu
16,467 corpus weight
- awe
awe
16,461 corpus weight
- bastidor
bastidor
16,446 corpus weight
- beliscão
beliscão
16,439 corpus weight
- botina
botina
16,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “awe” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | awe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “awe” em português
Rare enough to double-check
awe is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,540 among 1,900 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɔː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for awe, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is awe, spelled A-W-E.
Definition
- 1sentimento de medo e reverência
- 2espanto, admiração
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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